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    The Night of the Shooting Stars

    R1982 · Drama · 1h 46m

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  1. "The Night of the Shooting Stars" played film festivals in 1982 (it won the special jury prize at Cannes) and pulled an upset by being voted the best film of the year by the National Society of Film Critics.

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  3. The Night of the Shooting Stars has an approval rating of 79% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 14 reviews, and an average rating of 6.9/10. The film was given a rapturous review in The New Yorker by the critic Pauline Kael, who wrote, "The Night of the Shooting Stars is so good it's thrilling. This new film encompasses a ...

  4. A parabolic Italian film about freedom, death, and grace set during World War II. Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. This Italian parabolic film is about events that take place in the Tuscany region of Italy during August of 1944.

  5. User Reviews. The Night of the Shooting Stars is the semi-autobiographical recollection by the Taviani Brothers of the night when a group of peasants in a small Tuscan village left their homes that had been mined by the Fascists to look for liberating American soldiers rumored to be on the outskirts.

  6. Directed by brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, The Night of the Shooting Stars, set in Tuscany in 1944, follows a group of citizens who leave their village just before their houses...

  7. Reviews 67% Audience Score 100+ Ratings During World War II, an Italian village finds itself caught in the bloody struggle between retreating Nazi forces, stubborn fascists, local partisans...

  8. The Night of the Shooting Stars: Directed by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani. With Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli, Massimo Bonetti. In 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.

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