Country: Italy
Year: 1974
Duration: 124'
Gianni, Antonio, Nicola: three partisans fighting the Nazi-fascists in the mountains. Three left wing men who dream of a new and fairer Italy during the first Republican season. Three friends who, over the following years, from the mid-1950s to the early ‘70s, take different, sometimes parallel paths; they lose sight of each other, betray each other, find each other once again… One in particular will abandon all the ideals for which he fought; the other two will, each in his own way, embody the betrayed hopes, the errors, and the illusions of Italy’s Left. And, naturally, all three of them will be in love with the same woman. Scola’s masterpiece, a look back at three decades of Italian history full of melancholy and dreams of redemption, but also a love letter to Italian cinema and its stars. The movie is dedicated to Vittorio De Sica, and Fellini and Mastroianni also took part… The four stars are unforgettable: Manfredi, Gassman, Satta Flores, and the beautiful Sandrelli.
Biography
film director
Ettore Scola
(Trevico, Avellino, Italy, 1931 - Rome, Italy, 2016), after collaborating with Age and Scarpelli on the screenplays of major movies, debuted as a director in 1964 with Let’s Talk About Women, starring Vittorio Gassman (one of his favorite actors), Nino Manfredi, and Marcello Mastroianni. Between the late 1960s and throughout the ’70s, he made a name for himself as one of the maestros of Italian cinema, as he continued making comedies, but also struck melancholy and dramatic notes with his masterpieces. In 2013, ten years after his last film, he directed the tribute to Fellini Che strano chiamarsi Federico. In 2012 he received the 30th TFF Gran Premio Torino.
FILMOGRAFIA
Se permettete parliamo di donne (1964), La congiuntura (1964), L’arcidiavolo (1965), Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l’amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa? (1968), Il commissario Pepe (1969), Dramma della gelosia. Tutti i particolari in cronaca (1970), Permette? Rocco Papaleo (1971), La più bella serata della mia vita (1972), Trevico-Torino - Viaggio nel Fiat-Nam (1973), C’eravamo tanto amati (1974), Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (1976), Signore e signori, buonanotte (coregia/codirector Cooperativa 15 maggio, 1976), Una giornata particolare (1977), I nuovi mostri (coregia/codirectors Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, 1977), La terrazza (1979), Vorrei che volo (doc, 1982), Il mondo nuovo (1982), Ballando ballando (1983), Maccheroni (1985), La famiglia (1987), Splendor (1989), Che ora è? (1989), Il viaggio di Capitan Fracassa (1990), Mario, Maria e Mario (1993), Romanzo di un giovane povero (1995), La cena (1998), Concorrenza sleale (2001), Gente di Roma (2003), Che strano chiamarsi Federico (doc, 2013).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Ettore Scola. SCREENPLAY: Age & Scarpelli, Ettore Scola. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Claudio Cirillo. FILM EDITING: Raimondo Crociani. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Luciano Ricceri. COSTUME DESIGN: Luciano Ricceri. MUSIC: Armando Trovajoli. CAST: Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores, Giovanna Ralli, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcella Michelangeli, Elena Fabrizi, Fiammetta Baralla, Luciano Bonanni, Dino Curcio, Isa Barzizza, Marcello Mastroianni, Federico Fellini, Ugo Gregoretti, Mike Bongiorno. PRODUCTION: Pio Angeletti, Adriano de Micheli per Deantir.
CONTACT: CSC - Cineteca Nazionale diffusioneculturale@fondazionecsc.it
