Vittorio De Seta: the lost world

When the fine weather returns, the men go swordfish fishing in the Strait of Messina...

To the north of Sicily, Stromboli and the Aeolian Islands rise above the sea, threatening human life...

The center of Sicily is full of sulfur mines. An invisible tragedy is playing out in the bowels of the earth...

The harvest in inner Sicily. Under overwhelming heat, we finally reap the fruits of a year of hard work...

At Easter, the death and resurrection of Christ are re-enacted in the villages around Messina, Caltanissetta and Enna…

Off the Sicilian coast, fishermen await the tuna which, for millennia, has followed the same route...

Fishermen brave the waves between Sicily and Africa. In the event of a storm, they take shelter on the island of Lampedusa…

On Mount Orgosolo, in Sardinia, rare shepherds guide their flocks in a harsh climate...

The shepherds left with their herds, the women worked in the village and took care of the wood, the fields and the bread...

In Calabria, the mountain road comes to an abrupt end: you have to walk 15 kilometers to get to Alessandria del Carretto. When winter is over, the village comes back to life on the occasion of the "Fir Festival", an ancestral pagan tradition...