Director: Maura Delpero
Set in a snowbound Italian village in 1944, Vermiglio is a 2024 Italian-language drama directed by Maura Delpero, streaming in Persian on K-Time.
What is Vermiglio about?
Winter has closed in on the mountain village of Vermiglio, and the war feels far away until it doesn't. Pietro, a deserter, arrives seeking refuge and is quietly taken in by the household of the village schoolteacher — a man who values books and order in a place ruled by weather and hard labor. What follows isn't a wartime thriller but a slow reordering of a family through the seasons: the schoolteacher's eldest daughter and Pietro grow close, and that one relationship sends ripples through siblings, parents, and neighbors who all have to reckon with what changes and what doesn't in an isolated community. The film pays close attention to domestic ritual — meals, chores, whispered conversations — treating them as the real engine of the story.
Cast & crew
Tommaso Ragno anchors the ensemble as the schoolteacher, with Martina Scrinzi, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli, Orietta Notari, Carlotta Gamba, Santiago Fondevila, and Sara Serraiocco rounding out the village. Maura Delpero directs with a painter's patience, favoring natural light and unhurried framing over any conventional wartime staging.
Context & significance
Produced across Belgium, France, Italy, and the United States, Vermiglio belongs to a strain of European period drama that trades spectacle for observation — closer to a family chronicle than a history lesson. For diaspora audiences who gravitate toward slow, character-driven cinema, it sits comfortably alongside the kind of patient storytelling that Iranian film has long been known for internationally, even though the setting couldn't be further from home.
Where & how to watch
Vermiglio is available on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so you can watch it however suits you best. A free K-Time account and login are all that's needed to press play; browsing the film's page requires nothing at all. The service runs entirely in Farsi and reaches the Iranian diaspora wherever they live, on phone, tablet, browser, or TV, with no VPN required, no geo-blocking, and the freedom to cancel whenever you choose.