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01 November1985
The boar
Author
Andrea Preteni
Format
Super8
Duration
2'40''
Credits
Music by Michele Manzolini

We are in Vallerano, in upper Lazio. The unfortunate wild boar protagonist of this Super8 film has been killed by hunters and is carried around as a trophy on Saint's Day. On 1 November 1985, the era of the brown wild boar had not yet begun: in the following years, we would witness an invasion of these invasive mammals that from Vallerano City and other places, due to the repopulation wanted by man, would invade the whole of Italy, rooting ever louder. To the delight of hunters and the despair of farmers, above all. We could talk at length about men and wild boars, let you imagine who is responsible for the damage caused to the environment. The Preteni family does not seem to worry about this, surely the thoughts of the mid-eighties are quite different, and in the meantime there is to enjoy the sunset between shooting. The future of the children of those years will be less bright than the future of their parents as children.

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