The Postman

  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Michael Radford
  • Italy 1994
  • 108 minutes
  • Italian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Il postino

25th Anniversary.

In the 1950s, when exiled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda arrives on a tiny Italian isle, there's so much mail that Mario is hired as his postman. His job is simply to deliver Neruda's daily mail. Mario soon becomes a student of the poet, learning the art of poetry to woo a local barmaid and tell about the struggles of the working-class villagers. This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Michael Radford’s beloved classic was the last film of Italian writer/star Massimo Troisi (The Voyage of Captain Fracassa). The film won an Academy Award for Foreign Picture.


  • Director Michael Radford
  • Production Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Gaetano Daniele
  • Script Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, Massimo Troisi, based on the novel by Antonio Skármeta.
  • Cinematography Franco Di Giacomo
  • Editing Roberto Perpignani
  • Music Luis Bacalov
  • Actors Phillipe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
  • Source Stefano Veneruso / Variety Communications