Benetti

The winter of 1917, the North-East front, the final clashes of the Great War. An Italian stronghold situated at 1800 metres above sea level, on the Asiago plateau, described in the novels of Mario Rigoni Stern. It’s snowing everywhere; the Austrian trenches are so close that you can hear the enemy soldiers breathing.　　A hundred years since the outbreak of World War I, maestro Ermanno Olmi describes with Torneranno i prati his vision of a conflict that cost the lives of 16 million human beings, just as it was brought back to him by the memory of his father, called to arms at 19 years of age, to find himself within the bloodbath of Carso and Piave. A drama that scarred his youth and the rest of his life, just like millions of others.

1917年冬天，东北前线，一场巨大的决战即将开始。意大利大本营位于海拔1800米的高原上，到处都下着簌簌的雪花。百年内第一次世界大战爆发，让1600万人失去了生命，故事让他回想到父亲的年代，19岁时就身陷一场血淋淋的战场。像那无数无人理会的野草一般，无数青春就此陨落。