Bandits of Orgosolo

Bandits of Orgosolo (Banditi a Orgosolo, 1961) is an Italian drama by Vittorio De Seta you can watch online on iFILM. A shepherd in the Sardinian highlands is wrongly tied to the killing of a policeman.

He knows he is innocent, yet he won't turn himself in. He has no faith in the courts, and a trial would leave his flock — the family's only livelihood — to scatter and die. So an honest man takes to the rocks instead, and the mountains slowly close around him. De Seta shot the film among real herders of Barbagia, using locals instead of actors and a plain, almost documentary eye. It's a late, austere echo of neorealism, patient and unsentimental — best for viewers who like the slow grain of Italian classics. Stream Bandits of Orgosolo (1961) online on iFILM.