Round 1: Tossup 6

A 1962 film about this subnational region works backwards and forwards from a shot of the bloody corpse of an outlaw who “ruled its mountains.” An exclamation point follows this region’s name in the title of a film about an emigrant’s homecoming directed by Straub and Huillet (“wee-YAY”). In a film set in this region, a woman guffaws at a joke told by a man wearing an eyepatch, causing the abrupt end of a dinner party. A 1948 film whose title translates as “the earth trembles” stars a non-professional cast as a family of fishermen from this region who live in a house by a (*) medlar tree. In a 1963 film set in this region, the protagonist and his nephew each remark with opposite tones that “everything must change for everything to remain the same.” Dancing couples form a chain that weaves through a party to cap a nearly hour-long ball scene in that film, which stars Burt Lancaster as (10[1])a prince from this region. For 10 points, what island is the setting of Luchino Visconti’s film The Leopard? ■END■

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