Il Postino (The Postman)
(Luis Bacalov)
Il Postino (The Postman)
by Luis Bacalov
“ Il Postino “is the soundtrack to a 1994 comedy-drama film Il Postino (The Postman). Composer Luis Bacalov won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score, and the film was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published. The film tells a fictional story in which the real life Chilean poet Pablo Neruda forms a friendship with a simple Procida postman (Troisi) who learns to love poetry.