The American Backyard

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L’orto americano

Suspenseful, noir horror fantasy about a writer’s hunt for a missing woman.

  • Director

    Pupi Avati

  • With

    Filippo Scotti, Armando De Cecco, Roberto De Francesco

  • Italy-USA 2024. 107min

  • Digital

  • Italian and English with English subtitles

Veteran Italian filmmaker Pupi Avati adapts his own novel for this tale, an engrossing period noir thriller about a young Italian writer who crosses the Atlantic in search of an American nurse he encountered in Bologna during the Second World War. Atmospheric and suspenseful, this is a carefully crafted, expertly realised gothic chiller, featuring a welcome cameo from British cinema icon Rita Tushingham.