Country: Italy
Year: 1965
Duration: 18'
Renato Bertazzi is a manufacturer with serious money problems. As he waits for a phone call that could solve his debt dilemma, his wife Valeria plagues him with her obsession for the comic book whose main character, Sadik, kills unpunished criminals. To give some spark to their monotonous married life, the woman forces him to dress up like the comic book hero, until the game takes a serious turn. “After years of experimentation, Italian anthology films have become more sophisticated, they have eliminated the residues of ostentatious vulgarity and have gained dignity as a performance art. This is the case of Thrilling which, as the title suggests, brings together three comic episodes with a ‘thriller’ backdrop.” Proiezione in collaborazione con la Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale
Biography
film director
Gian Luigi Polidoro
Gian Luigi Polidoro (Bassano del Grappa, Vicenza, Italy, 1927 - Rome, Italy, 2000) graduated in 1948 from the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia and began work as an assistant to Francesco Pasineti. He then specialized in documentaries, winning an Oscar for best documentary short with his film Oeuverture (1959). He debuted in feature-length fiction films with Le svedesi (1960). His most important awards arrived with The Devil (1963), which also received the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival that same year. He has played small roles in films such as The Great War (1959) by Mario Monicelli and The Conjugal Bed (1963) by Marco Ferreri.
FILMOGRAFIA
Paese d’America (cm, doc., 1959), Oeuverture (cm, doc., 1959), Power Among Men (doc., 1959), Le svedesi (1960), Hong Kong un addio (1963), Il diavolo (1963), Una moglie americana (1965), Thrilling (ep. Sadik, cm, 1965), Una moglie giapponese? (1968), Satyricon (1969), Fischia il sesso (1974), Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia? (1974), Rent Control (Cercasi casa a Manhattan, 1984), Sottozero (1987), Hitler’s Strawberries (1998).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Gian Luigi Polidoro
sceneggiatura/screenplay
fotografia/cinematography
Pier Ludovico Pavoni
montaggio/film editing
Nino Baragli
scenografia/production design
Gianni Polidori
musica/music
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Walter Chiari (Renato Bertazzi), Dorian Gray (Valeria Bertazzi)
produttore/producer
Dino De Laurentiis
produzione/production
Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica
Gli altri episodi sono/The other episodes are L’autostrada del sole di/by Carlo Lizzani e/and Il vittimista di/by Ettore Scola
