
1912. Giovanni Pascoli has died, and a train leaves from Bologna for his funeral. On board, students, officials, and family, including his sister Maria, called Mariù. It is a journey of national mourning, with people from all social classes paying homage to the poet. In Mariù’s recollections, we learn how Giovanni lived: his father’s assassination, his poverty as a youth, his political activism and fraught ties to Giosuè Carducci.

as Giovanni 'Zvanì' Pascoli

as Maria 'Mariù' Pascoli

as Ida Pascoli

as Raffaele Pascoli

as Zia Rita

as Cacciaguerra

as Emma Corcos



as Gabriele D'Annunzio


as Giosuè Carducci


as Andrea Costa





as Giovanni a 12 anni





as Giuseppina Cattani

as Fausto

as Questore

as Funzionario polizia

as Tipografo Livorno

as Professoressa Toscana

as Sacerdote confessionale

as Bruna

as Ruggero Pascoli

as Teresa

as Studente Alessi

as Studente Bindi

as Studente Fiore

as Studente Toscana

as Passeggera treno