Mondovino: Crossing the Rubicon
KimStim • 52m
Directed by Jonathan Nossiter • Documentary • 2004 • 53 minutes
The Antinori and Frescobaldi families have dominated the political and economic life of Tuscany for a thousand years. For the past thirty, they've concentrated all their resources in wine. The tensions and conflicts underlying the two ruling families resemble a nineteenth-century opera (or a Mafia turf war).
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