Country: Italy, France
Year: 1976
Duration: 109'
Turin. The upper bourgeoisie is shaken by a murder: architect Garrone is found dead, his skull smashed by a stone sculpture. The investigation is led by Commissioner Santamaria, a Roman transplanted to the Piedmontese capital, who navigates refined circles and class hypocrisies. Suspicion falls on Anna Carla and her friend Massimo. Amid false leads, irony, and seduction, the case is solved thanks to a misunderstood Turin proverb. From the most famous novel by the Turin writing duo Fruttero and Lucentini came a film of extraordinary success as well, written by Age and Scarpelli, directed by Comencini, and starring great actors such as Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Jacqueline Bisset.
Biography
film director
Luigi Comencini
(Salò, Brescia, Italy, 1916 - Rome, Italy, 2007), one of the founders, with Alberto Lattuada and Mario Ferreri, of the Cineteca italiana, had his first big success with The Emperor of Capri, starring Totò. In 1953 he won a Silver Bear in Berlin with Bread, Love and Dreams, which was followed by Bread, Love and Jealousy. In the 1960s he made films like Everybody Go Home and Bebo’s Girl, and in the following decade he made The Scientific Cardplayerand The Sunday Woman. He has also directed important literary adaptations for television, including The Adventures of Pinocchio, Heart and History. In 1987, he was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Venice.
FILMOGRAFIA
Bambini in città (cm, 1946), Proibito rubare (1948), L’imperatore di Capri (1949), L’ospedale del delitto (cm, 1950), Il museo dei sogni (cm, 1950), Persiane chiuse (1951), La tratta delle bianche (1952), Heidi - Son tornata per te (1952), La valigia dei sogni (1953), Pane, amore e fantasia (1953), Pane, amore e gelosia (1954), La bella di Roma (1955), La finestra sul Luna Park (1957), Mariti in città (1957), Mogli pericolose (1958), E ciò al lunedì mattina (1959), Le sorprese dell’amore (1959), Tutti a casa (1960), A cavallo della tigre (1961), Il commissario (1962), La ragazza di Bube (1963), 3 notti d’amore (ep., 1964), La mia signora (ep., 1964), Le bambole (ep., 1965), La bugiarda (1965), Il compagno don Camillo (1965), Incompreso (1966), Italian Secret Service (1968), Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano (1969), Senza sapere niente di lei (1969), I bambini e noi (tv, 1970), Lo scopone scientifico (1972), Le avventure di Pinocchio (tv, 1972), Delitto d’amore (1974), Mio Dio, come sono caduta in basso! (1974), La donna della domenica (1975), Signore e signori, buonanotte (coregia Age, Benvenuti, De Bernardi, Loy, Maccari, Magni, Monicelli, Pirro, Scarpelli e Scola, 1976), Basta che non si sappia in giro (ep., 1976), Quelle strane occasioni (ep., 1976), L’amore in Italia (tv, 1978), Il gatto (1977), L’ingorgo (1979), Voltati Eugenio (1980), Dieci registi italiani, dieci racconti italiani (ep., tv, 1983), Cercasi Gesù (1982), Cuore (tv, 1984), La Storia (tv, 1986), Un ragazzo di Calabria (1987), Pèlerinage à Agen e Les Gaulois, episodi della miniserie TV Les français vus par (tv, 1988), La bohème (1988), Buon Natale... buon anno (1989), Marcellino pane e vino (1991).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Luigi Comencini. STORY: based on the novel by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini SCREENPLAY: Age, Furio Scarpelli. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Luciano Tovoli. EDITING: Antonio Siciliano. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Mario Ambrosino. COSTUMES: Mario Ambrosino. MUSIC: Ennio Morricone. SOUND: Mario Dallimonti. CAST: Marcello Mastroianni, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Aldo Reggiani, Pino Caruso, Lina Volonghi, Franco Nebbia, Maria Teresa Albani, Omero Antonutti, Claudio Gora. PRODUCTION: Roberto Infascelli, Marcello D’Amico for Primex Italiana - Fox Europa.
CONTACT: Compass Film http://www.compassfilms.net
