Set in Sardegna

Films and series set in Sardegna. And what the Italian sounds like.

53 films and series set here, 13 with their speech described.

Relief map of Where in Sardegna these titles are setAPERA123
  1. 53 titles set in Sardegna · click a dot to filter
  2. 1Costa SmeraldaFratelli d'Italia4
  3. 2FonniCenere1
  4. 3GaltellìCanne al vento1

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10 of 53Ordered by how often each title is looked up on Italian Wikipedia.
  • Buen camino2025 · film · standard
    #1465avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    From what I can tell this is a contemporary Italian production whose characters speak standard Italian with at most a regional accent colouring individual travellers; I have no evidence of dialect used as a working language between characters.

    Exchanges between travelling companions run at normal Italian conversational speed with the usual amount of overlap, not as shouted cross-talk.

  • Loro2018 · film · standard, Apulian
    #2457avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    Speech is standard Italian throughout with regional colouring — Apulian inflection and occasional local turns from the southern procurer's circle, northern business cadence around Berlusconi — but almost no shift out of standard Italian.

    Ordinary conversational speed for the set-piece dialogues, with faster overlapping chatter in the crowded villa and party scenes.

  • La vita va così2025 · film · standard, Sardinian
    #3319avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    The negotiation between the Milanese developer's side and the shepherd's family runs in standard Italian, but the villagers and the shepherd himself carry local lexicon and stretches of actual Sardinian among themselves, so a learner loses scattered lines rather than whole scenes.

    Normal conversational pace with some overlap in the family and village arguments, while the shepherd's own speech is notably unhurried.

  • #4309avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    Giannino the deckhand speaks a strongly Sicilian-inflected speech that slides into dialect proper during his tirades, while the shipowner's wife speaks northern standard Italian, so a learner with standard Italian loses chunks of one half of the two-hander.

    Most exchanges are shouted at speed with the two talking over each other, the wife's clipped needling cutting into the deckhand's long harangues.

  • Piccolo grande amore1993 · film · standard
    #5164avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    Standard Italian throughout, with light Roman colouring in the young male lead's speech and his circle; no shift out of standard Italian.

    Normal conversational Italian with some overlap in the group and family scenes, but the romantic two-handers are unhurried.

  • Berlinguer - La grande ambizione2024 · film · standard
    #6135avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    Speech is standard Italian throughout, with Berlinguer's characteristic Sardinian-tinged delivery and light Roman colour in the party and family scenes, but nothing that departs from standard grammar or lexicon.

    Berlinguer's own measured, deliberate delivery slows much of the film, while the meeting and corridor scenes bring normal conversational speed with some overlap.

  • Fratelli d'Italia1989 · film · Costa Smeralda · standard
    #7122avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    Standard Italian carried on strongly marked Roman and northern accents from the comic leads, with occasional regionally coloured tags rather than dialect lines.

    Comic delivery is fast with frequent interruption, and the shouting-over-each-other family arguments give sustained cross-talk.

  • Un'estate al mare2008 · film · standard, Romanesco, Neapolitan
    #8116avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    The film's separate seaside episodes are built on regional типcasting — Roman, Neapolitan and northern characters each speaking heavily accented Italian with local lexicon and interjections — but the grammar stays standard and the comedy depends on lines landing, so exchanges remain followable.

    Comic delivery is fast and shouted, with characters talking over each other in group scenes and rapid-fire punchline exchanges.

  • E adesso sesso2001 · film
    #992.5avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
  • Giovanni Falcone1993 · film · standard, Sicilian
    #1079.4avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

    Magistrates, police and press scenes are in standard Italian with Palermitan accent, while mafiosi and turned informants speak Sicilian-coloured Italian with local lexicon that stays grammatically followable.

    Normal adult conversational speed, with bursts of overlap in the heated office confrontations and courtroom scenes but generally one speaker holding the floor.

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