Vermisat

Vermisat

1974 · 83 min · ★ 3.3 · Drama

Luigi Tagrana, a hopeless social outcast living on the industrial outskirts of northern Italy, scrapes together a meager living by gathering worms to sell as bait. His days are spent in a bleak, repetitive cycle of labor and solitude amidst a decaying landscape, moving in and out of hospitals and prisons where he is treated as a number rather than a person.

Directed by Mario Brenta · Written by Mario Brenta

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