La fuga (1965 film)
| The Escape | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Paolo Spinola |
| Written by | Sergio Amidei Piero Bellanova |
| Starring | Giovanna Ralli Anouk Aimée Paul Guers Enrico Maria Salerno |
| Cinematography | Marcello Gatti Armando Nannuzzi |
| Edited by | Nino Baragli |
| Music by | Piero Piccioni |
Release date |
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| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
La fuga, also known as The Escape, is a 1965 Italian drama film directed by Paolo Spinola. For this film Giovanna Ralli was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Actress.[1]
Plot
Cast
- Giovanna Ralli as Piera
- Anouk Aimée as Luisa
- Paul Guers as Andrea
- Enrico Maria Salerno as Analyst
- Maurizio Arena as Alberto
- Jone Salinas as Mother of Andrea
- Guido Alberti as Father of Piera
- Carol Walker as Mother of Piera
- Ignazio Dolce as the diver
Production
The film marked the directorial debut of Paolo Spinola; for the lead role, he chose Giovanna Ralli, whom he had met in 1953 on the set of It Happened in the Park.[2] Spinola described the film as "the analysis of a marital relationship based entirely on a psychoanalytic fabric of a Freudian type", and the screenplay was co-written with psychoanalyst Piero Bellanova.[2]
Release
The film received a domestic theatrical release in early 1965.[2] It was picked up by 20th Century Fox for international distribution, and released in the United States, where it premiered in New York in March 1966 as The Escape.[2] Fox released it also in France, Mexico, and West Germany.[2]
Reception
Italian film historian Roberto Curti described the film as "one of the finest feature film debuts of the decade", "surprisingly elegant" and with an "extraordinary visual style".[2] According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $700,000 in rentals to break even and made $230,000, meaning it made a loss.[3]
References
- ^ Enrico Lancia (1998). I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore. ISBN 88-7742-221-1.
- ^ a b c d e f Curti, Roberto (2018). Mavericks of Italian Cinema: Eight Unorthodox Filmmakers, 1940s-2000s. McFarland. pp. 143–5. ISBN 978-1-4766-7242-7.
- ^ Silverman, Stephen M (1988). The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox. L. Stuart. p. 325. ISBN 9780818404856.