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The Film File
Michele (Giuseppe Cristiano), the brown-legged ten-year-old at the center of the stirring Italian movie "I'm Not Scared," is fifty inches tall, and every inch a boy. By that I mean he has a boy's adventurousness and gallantry and a natural sense of the rightness of things. In 1978, in one of the southernmost regions of Italy, Michele is spending a long summer romping in the wheat fields. The other games he plays with the children in the tiny farm town where he lives (it's just a few sun-baked buildings with a flyspecked shop or two) don't do a thing for him, but the golden fields are the purest freedom. The stalks come up to ...