Η Μάγισσα

A small Italian detachment occupies an isolated mountain fort on the Abyssinian frontier; two junior officers, one recently wounded, share evenings of music and camaraderie while organizing defenses and training native recruits. Encounters with local traders and a lively native girl who unexpectedly speaks Italian introduce intimacy, humor and cultural friction as soldiers alternate between tenderness and roughness. As hardship, rumors and suspicion increase, daily routine gives way to mounting psychological strain, jealousy and impulsive violence, culminating in episodes that test loyalties and reveal the fragility of authority amid colonial tensions.