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Quick Info

Rating

7.2/10

Release2009

Runtime2h 40m

StatusReleased

Budget$30,000,000

Revenue$16,017,513

Production

Medusa Film

Quinta Communications

Movie

Baaria

2009

2h 40m

7.2

Drama

Comedy

Romance

Synopsis

Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.

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