La Terra Trema

In the Sicilian fishing village of Aci Trezza, a young fisherman named Ntoni rebels against the wholesalers who exploit his community and mortgages his family's home to buy their own boat. A storm destroys the vessel and with it the family's future, reducing them to day laborers for the very men Ntoni sought to defy. Shot entirely with non-professional actors speaking in Sicilian dialect, the film is a sublime marriage of neo-Marxist politics and operatic tragedy.