A train station goodbye unlocks six hours of childhood lessons that shaped a soldier's soul.
Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestEnrico Bottini, an engineering student, prepares to serve as an officer when Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. At the train station, he meets Garrone, an old friend from elementary school, and begins to reminisce on the values instilled to him by both school and his father.
Production
Lavish period recreation of 19th-century Turin.
Acting
Johnny Dorelli's warm, world-weary schoolmaster.
Creator
Luigi Comencini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Edmondo De Amicis's 1886 novel, a foundational text in Italian education that every Boomer was forced to read.
Comencini directed this at 67, returning to the source material he'd first adapted as a 1948 film—this version lets him linger on the classroom as sacred space.
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