Name: Cortile Cascino
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1983-03-14
Duration: 46 min
Rating: 7

Director Michael Roemer made this documentary about a slum in Palermo, Sicily, for NBC in 1961. NBC never aired it. I saw it years later in a film class at which Roemer showed up and talked about it.

The houses had no running water. They fetched water from one outside spigot. They shat on a railroad track that ran through the center of the slum and occasionally someone would get killed when a train came through. The men got occasional work from the Mafia. The women struggled to raise their children.

The stories of the slum-dwellers are raw and well-told.

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