L'amante di Gramigna. Otello Profazio

In 1865 in Sicily, a poor peasant, Giuseppe Gramigna (Gian Maria Volonté), deceived by Baron Nardò (Ivo Garrani), is forced to abandon his miserable house, already rented by the Baron Assunta (Emilia Radeva) and his daughter. Gemma (Stefania Sandrelli), engaged to Ramarro (Luigi Pistilli), one of her employees. Gramigna, determined to take revenge, begins to kill the "mediators", Nardò's accomplices. Gemma, not wanting to marry Ramarro, takes advantage of the circumstance to run away with Gramigna, with whom she has always been secretly in love. Turned into his lover, Gemma follows him in all his adventures, sharing risks and dangers with him.
The D'Ancona and Mandalari song "Amuri, amuri", of which the soundtrack is a major part, was recorded for Carlo Lizzani's film by Otello Profazio, who better harmonized the first four verses and followed up with three completely new verses. Up to the point that today the folkloric interpret only their version, which wonderfully expresses the way in which the men of the South lived their feelings. There are two clear metaphors in the text: 1) Man - woman = Hunter-Quail: It is the way of conceiving love in the South: a man follows a woman like the hunter to the quail, to have her. 2) The second metaphor needs a notion of carpentry. When making the reinforcement of a wall, or of a pillar, the carpenter held the reinforcement by means of iron wire (ferrufilatu in Calabrian), whose two ends tighten the opposite parts and are twisted with the pliers; then, when they are well tightened, the clamp continues to rotate and slowly thins the tissue until it breaks. Here is the resemblance: as iron wire is thinned with tongs, so the lover's heart is thinned until it breaks, when her love is not reciprocated.

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