Fiorile

Fiorile
Fiorile
	Vittorio Taviani
Produced by	Grazia Volpi
Starring	Claudio Bigagli; Galatea Ranzi; Michael Vartan
Cinematography	Giuseppe Lanci
Edited by	Roberto Perpignani
Music by	Nicola Piovani
Distributed by	Fine Line Features (US)
Release date	19 May 1993;
Running time	118 minutes
Countries	Italy; France; Germany
Languages	Italian; French

Fiorile is a 1993 Italian

Vittorio Taviani, and stars Claudio Bigagli, Galatea Ranzi, and Michael Vartan. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

The title Fiorile allegedly is derived from the month of

French Republican Calendar

. The film is also known as Wild Flower.

Plot

While travelling to visit their grandfather in Tuscany, two children are told the story of a family curse that has lasted two hundred years. During Napoleon's Italian invasion, Elisabetta Benedetti fell in love with French soldier Jean but while he was distracted by her, Elisabetta's brother Corrado unintentionally stole the regiment's gold that Jean was guarding, causing Jean's death by firing squad and set the curse in train. The Benedettis become wealthy, corrupt and hated by their former friends, who rename them the Maledetti, the 'cursed' (Benedetti means 'blessed'). The children's grandfather Massimo Benedetti is the last man to be directly affected by the curse but will he pass it onto them?