Genre: Drama

Language: Italian with English Subtitles

Director: Giorgio Diritti

Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Maya Sansa, Eleonora Mazzoni, Claudio Casadio

Released: 2009

Duration: 114 Minutes

Rating: M contains violence

Distribution: Umbrella Entertainment

2010 David Di Donatello: Best Film. 2009 Rome Film Festival Grand Jury Prize & Audience Award

Multi-award winning film 'The Man Who will Come' is a powerful and engrossing drama based on the World War II tragedy known as the Marzabotto Massacre. This film confirms director and co-writer Giorgio Diritti as a major player in contemporary Italian cinema.

Winter, 1943. Martina is a wide-eyed 8-year-old who hasn't spoken since her baby brother died in her arms. Now her mother Lena (Maya Sansa) is pregnant again, and Martina looks forward to the new arrival. But 1943-44 is a difficult period. Lena and her husband, Armando (Claudio Casadio), along with the other peasants, struggle to feed themselves and the families who've fled the city and are lodging in their spare rooms, whilst debating how much assistance to give the partisans with the impending arrival of the Germans. At the same time Armando's sister (Alba Rohrwacher) has spent time in the city herself, adopting ways that grate on her mother.

Early in his career Diritti worked with Ermanno Olmi, and he tips his cap to his mentor by evocatively capturing village life in the countryside around Bologna with lyrical simplicity, local dialect, and austerely beautiful images.