Country: Italy
Year: 1960
Duration: 108'
Five Italians on a train heading to Monte Carlo find themselves involved by chance in the mysterious death of an elderly lady. Alberto is on his way to join his wife Eleonora, who is on vacation there; Remo and Marina are hoping to win some money at the casino; Quirino and Giovanna are returning a lost dachshund to its wealthy owner. During the police investigation, the five Italians give contradicting stories, they are unable to convincingly justify their movements, they accuse each other and run the risk of being accused of the crime. Fortunately, the perspicacious police commissioner in charge of the case succeed in resolving the matter and proving the innocence of the group, who manage nonetheless to end up in prison again on their trip back to Italy. “Rodolfo Sonego came up with the idea for Crimen and a bunch of us then wrote the screenplay: me, Giorgio Arlorio, Oreste Biancoli, Stefano Strucchi and Luciano Vincenzo. There was also Monte Carlo and the casino, and I said to Silvana Mangano: ‘If we don’t manage to make an en plein we might as well shoot ourselves…’ And we made it…” Proiezione in collaborazione con la Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale
Biography
film director
Mario Camerini
Mario Camerini (Rome, Italy, 1895 - Gardone Riviera, Brescia, Italy, 1981) debuted as a director in the early 1920s, but he made a name for himself with movies like What Scoundrels Men Are!, Mister Max and Department Store, as well as turning Vittorio De Sica into a true star. In the 1940s, he directed The Spirit and the Flesh and Angel and the Devil, both of which starred Gino Cervi, and The Street Has Many Dreams, with Anna Magnani. Later films of his include Ulysses, with Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn, The Awakening, which was presented in Venice in 1956, and Crimen and its remake, Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente.
FILMOGRAFIA
Voglio tradire mio marito (1925), Maciste contro lo sceicco (1926), Kif Tebbi (1928), Gli uomini, che mascalzoni... (1932), T’amerò sempre (1933), Ma non è una cosa seria! (1936), Il signor Max (1937), I grandi magazzini (1939), I promessi sposi (1941), Una storia d’amore (1942), T’amerò sempre (1943), L’angelo e il diavolo (1946), Molti sogni per le strade (1948), Il brigante Musolino (1950), Gli eroi della domenica (1952), Ulisse (1954), Suor Letizia (1956), Vacanze a Ischia (1957), Primo amore (1959), Crimen (1960), Delitto quasi perfetto (1966), Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente (1971), Don Camillo e i giovani d’oggi (1972).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Mario Camerini
soggetto/story
Rodolfo Sonego
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Giorgio Arlorio, Oreste Biancoli, Mario Camerini, Rodolfo Sonego, Stefano Strucchi, Luciano Vincenzoni
fotografia/cinematography
Gianni Di Venanzo
montaggio/film editing
Giuliana Attenni
scenografia, costumi/production design, costume design
Piero Gherardi
musica/music
Pino Calvi
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Alberto Sordi (Alberto Franzetti), Vittorio Gassman (Remo), Nino Manfredi (Quirino), Dorian Gray (Eleonora Franzetti), Franca Valeri (Giovanna), Georges Rivière (Gaston Leduc), Bernard Blier (il commissario/Commissioner) e con/and with Silvana Mangano (Marina)
produttore/producer
Dino De Laurentiis
produzione/production
Dino de Laurentis Cinematografica, Orsay Films
