The American vegetable garden, the gothic film directed by celebrated Italian director Pupi Avati (The House of Laughing Windows, Zeder), will hit theaters on March 6 distributed by 01 Distribution.
The American vegetable garden is a Duea Film, Minerva Pictures with Rai Cinema production, produced by Antonio Avati, Gianluca Curti and Santo Versace.
“Once again we tackle the 'gothic' genre, in this case not only confirming those places in our region that turned out to be so significant, but expanding for the first part of the story to that rural America that is quite similar to our Emilia-Romagna,“ says director Pupi Avati.
The film stars Filippo Scotti, Roberto De Francesco, Armando De Ceccon, ChiaraCaselli, Rita Tushingham, Massimo Bonetti, Morena Gentile, Mildred Gustafsson, and Romano Reggiani.
Synopsis: in Bologna, at the time of the Liberation, a troubled young man falls in love with a beautiful american nurse. The following year, in the American Midwest, he goes to live in a house adjoining his beloved's, separated only by a nefarious vegetable garden. There lives her elderly mother, who hasn't heard from her daughter since the end of the war, leading the man to embark on a tense search for the girl.
The poster:
