Breath of Life is a 1990

1990 in film

The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall .* The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2....

 Italian

Cinema of Italy

The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.-Early years:...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Beppe Cino. It is an adaptation of Gesualdo Bufalino

Gesualdo Bufalino

Gesualdo Bufalino , was an Italian writer.Gesualdo Bufalino was born in Comiso, Sicily. He studied literature and was, for most of his life a high-school professor in his hometown...

's 1981 novel, Diceria dell'untore. The film, starring Franco Nero

Franco Nero

Franco Nero is an Italian actor.-Early life:Nero was born Francesco Sparanero in San Prospero Parmense , the son of a sergeant in the...

 and Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave, CBE is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist.She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since made more than 35 appearances on London's West End and Broadway, winning...

 was released in Italy on 11 October, 1990.

Plot

In 1946, Gesualdo (Nero) is a recovering Second World War soldier in a Palermo

Palermo

Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...

 TB

TB

-Music:*Tenor and bass, a score for male chorus*The Beatles, the English rock band, the most lauded and successful group in the history of modern music**The Beatles , the tenth album by the above band, also known as the White Album...

 clinic. Most of the patients are young yet aware of their impending death. Gesualdo holds the same bleak expectations. Yet miraculously he recovers while all the others perish, including the medical professionals. Gesualdo is the only survivor that can bear witness to the ordeal in the clinic.

Cast

• Franco Nero
  Franco Nero
  Franco Nero is an Italian actor.-Early life:Nero was born Francesco Sparanero in San Prospero Parmense , the son of a sergeant in the...
  
   as Gesualdo
• Vanessa Redgrave
  Vanessa Redgrave
  Vanessa Redgrave, CBE is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist.She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since made more than 35 appearances on London's West End and Broadway, winning...
  
   as Sister Crucifix
• Fernando Rey
  Fernando Rey
  Fernando Casado Arambillet , best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and TV actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States...
  
   as Doctor
• Salvatore Cascio
  Salvatore Cascio
  Salvatore Cascio is an award winning Italian film and television actor.-Filmography:*Nuovo cinema Paradiso *Diceria dell'untore *C'era un castello con 40 cani *Stanno tutti bene...
  
  
• Tiberio Murgia
  Tiberio Murgia
  Tiberio Murgia was an Italian film actor. He appeared in over 100 films between 1958 and 2009.-Selected filmography:* Big Deal on Madonna Street * Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti...
  
  
• Toni Ucci
  Toni Ucci
  Toni Ucci , is an Italian film actor. He appeared in 86 films between 1948 and 2000.-Selected filmography:* The Emperor of Capri * Wild Love * Un maledetto imbroglio...
  
  
• Lucrezia Lante della Rovere as Marta
• Remo Girone as Sebastiano
• Gianluca Favilla
• Dalila Di Lazzaro
• Ferdinando Murolo