This richly symbolic film is really impossible to understand without some knowledge of 20th Century Italian history, and particularly the power of the Roman Catholic Church. The Lateran Treaty of 1929 finally politically separated Italy from Church power by creating the Vatican as a sovereign state. But the trade off was the that the Church was still left in power over many aspects of everyday Italian life. For instance, Italy finally established a civilian divorce law through a bitterly contested 1970 referendum. Before then, divorce was under strictly in the domain of Church law, and the Church NEVER granted a divorce, even in extreme cases like when a spouse was abandoned many years hence. Overall, however, the power of the Church still resided in the blind allegiance of Italians at all levels to Church morality. Over decades, this led to impeding Italy’s social and political progress, and greatly maintained the status quo in the division between the privileged upper class and the …
Also Known As (AKA): Uccellacci e uccellini, Gaviões e Passarinhos, Des oiseaux petits et gros, Oiseaux petits et gros, Passarinhos e Passarões, Pajaritos y pajarracos, Große Vögel kleine Vögel
File Name : Hawks and Sparrows 1966.mkv
File Size : 1851.65 MB
Resolution : 1024×556
Duration : 01:28:33
Quality: BRRip
Language: Italian
Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
