Just out of jail, rumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of tombaroli accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective of itinerant grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up.
Direction
Rohrwacher shoots 16mm like she's remembering a dream she half-stole.
Cinematography
Sun-drenched ruins and golden hour heists that ache with nostalgia.
Acting
Josh O'Connor's slouch contains multitudes of grief and longing.
Director
Alice Rohrwacher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The tombaroli were real: working-class Italians who looted Etruscan sites in the 70s-80s, often with police complicity, fueling the global antiquities market.
Rohrwacher cast her sister Alba as Spartaco and shot the tomb sequences in actual Etruscan necropolises—some artifacts you see are real, others replicas, and the film deliberately blurs which.
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