Director

DANIELE GAGLIANONE was born in Ancona in 1966. He graduated in Cinema History and Criticism from Turin University. Since 1991 he has been working with the National Film Archive of Resistance in Turin. He has directed numerous films: Il frascame (1989), Nella solitudine del sangue (1990), Nell'oscurità degli occhi (theatre), La ferita (1991), Era meglio morire da piccoli (1992), La battaglia della ferrovia and Sparare a vista sul sovversivo Agosti (1993), Lancia di Chivasso: una comunità operaia non rassegnata (1994), Cinecronache partigiane (1995), La carne sulle ossa (1996), Un inverno invisibile (1999). Daniele contributed to the screenplay and was assistant director for Gianni Amelio's Coś ridevano and Vratite se (1998). I nostri anni was presented to the last edition of the Turin Film Festival and the Trento Festival. It was also included in the Cannes Directors' Fortnight.

Alberto is a tired lonely old man. Now a widower, he leaves town to spend the summer in a bording house for old people. Natalino is also a lonely disillusioned old man who lives in an old deserted village in the mountains. The two men are united by a common experience as partisan fighters in the Piedmont mountains.

One episode, in particular, has been embedded in their memory and soul for years: the memory of the violence some injuried comrades suffered before being killed by the Black Brigades and the revenge they swore on the officer who led the ambush. In the boarding house, Alberto makes friends with Umberto, who is an old man confined to a wheelchair and saddened by the death of his son.

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