Orange Thief, The

Memorable Italian folk music, enticing orange groves, and beautiful photography highlight this compelling, quirky, unscripted 2007 film about a guitar-playing, folk-singing, orphaned orange thief (Andrea Calabrese) in Sicily who lands in an Italian prison for stealing his beloved citrus fruit and then winds up making an unlikely, far-fetched deal with his knife-wielding cellmate (Alessio Giottoli), who is in prison for murder and says he will give him a precious piece of land in exchange for making a recording of his headstrong girlfriend (Micaela Helvetica Saxer) singing.
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