The Last Shepherd

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| director = Marco Bonfanti

| producer = Anna Godano
Marco Bonfanti
Franco Bocca Gelsi

| writer = Marco Bonfanti

| starring = Renato Zucchelli
Piero Lombardi
Lucia Zucchelli

| music = Danilo Caposeno

| cinematography = Michele D'Attanasio

| editing = Valentina Andreoli

| studio =

| distributor = Cinecittà Luce

| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2012|10|26|Tokyo International Film Festival|2013|03|13|Italy}}

| runtime = 76 minutes

| country = Italy

| language = Italian

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The Last Shepherd (original title: L'ultimo pastore) is a 2012 biographical drama/documentary film written and directed by Marco Bonfanti. It premièred at the 2012 Tokyo International Film Festival{{cite web|url=http://2013.tiff-jp.net/en/lineup/works.php?id=174 |title=25th Tokyo International Film Festival | The Last Shepherd |publisher=2013.tiff-jp.net |date= |accessdate=2013-07-20}} and in Italy at the 2013 Turin Film Festival. In 2013 it was shown at the Dubai International Film Festival, at the Slamdance Film Festival and several other film festivals.{{cite web | url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2315610/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt | title = The Last Shepherd (2012) - Release Info | accessdate = 2013-07-20 | work = IMDb}}

Synopsis

Renato Zucchelli is the last travelling shepherd left in a metropolis, and he has a dream: to lead his flock of sheep to the inaccessible city center to meet the children who have never seen him, showing them that dreams and freedom will always exist as long as there is still space to believe in a last shepherd...who conquered back his city together with only his sheep and the power of imagination.

Production

The 1 October 2011, to film a scene of the movie, Marco Bonfanti brought a flock consisting of more than 700 sheep in Piazza del Duomo in Milan. The news of this story traveled through national and international press.[https://web.archive.org/web/20170821125828/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sheep-in-the-streets-of-milan-during-filming-for-the-last-shepherd/2011/10/05/gIQA8nn9QL_photo.html Washington Post]

References

External links

[http://www.lultimopastore.it/index.php?lang=en&Itemid=130 Official website]
{{IMDb title|2315610}}
{{rotten-tomatoes|id=the_last_shepherd|title=The Last Shepherd}}

Category:2012 films

Category:Italian documentary films

Category:2012 drama films

Category:2010s Italian films