S2613A Vermiglio
Class | Registration opens Monday, March 16, 2026 10:00 AM EST
Vermiglio - Written and directed by Maura Delpero?? (2024, 119 minutes)
In 1944, two Italian men -Attilio and Pietro - have deserted their army posts in Germany and come to Attilio's home in the remote mountain village of Vermiglio in Northern Italy seeking refuge.??The village has a one room schoolhouse, run by the patriarch and teacher, Cesare (Attilio's uncle).? Cesare and his wife Adele have just had their 9th child, but the baby boy dies in infancy.? Lucia — their eldest daughter — falls in love with Pietro, who is of Sicilian origins. Lucia, becomes pregnant by Pietro and they agree to marry.? Situations about Cesare's running of the school, Pietro's prior marriage to a woman he met in Sicily, Catholic traditions, Lucia's siblings and the difficulties Adele faces trying to raise and feed a large family with little money or support from the patriarch Cesare are presented.
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mark wenzel
mark wenzel has been in the Wayne State University Philosophy Department since 1998 and holds classes in Global Ethics, Contemporary Moral Issues, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Arts and developed a course in Classical Indian Philosophy for Fall 2023. wenzel has held classes (twice) in Feminist Philosophy at the Huron Valley Women's Prison and is currently part of a WSU group working to begin a College in Prison Program at Macomb Correctional Facility.