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Italy 1999 / 35 mm / Color / 149 min. | |||
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In seaside Viareggio in the '20s, Andrea, Guido and Nives are close friends despite their very different characters. Pharmacist's son Andrea yearns to be a poet, Guido is a gifted pianist but is expected to continue the family seafaring business, and Nives is the girl who loves them both. Andrea becomes a doctor, Guido becomes a musician and Nives ends up marrying him even though she retains a strong affection for Andrea, and he an even stronger one for her. The three friends look forward to a happy future, but war breaks out and their destinies begin to diverge. Andrea throws in his lot with the partisans while Guido allows himself to be seduced by fascism. When the Nazis retreat from Tuscany in 1944, Guido is arrested for collaborating with the Nazis and Nives calls on their old friend to save him from execution. Andrea does so by giving him refuge in the psychiatric clinic where he works. He nurses Guido back to health and arranges for him to flee to England with Nives. Many years later the three friends will meet again when Andrea gets a prestigious literary award in their old hometown. Guido's musical career has flourished and Nives is still torn by her love of the two men... |
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| Script: Giovanni Fago, Massimo Felisatti, Luciana Catalani. D'apr�s le roman de/Based on the novel by: Mario Tobino. Phot.: Marco Pontecorvo. Ed.: Giancarlo Cersosimo. Mus.: Pino Donaggio. Cast: Lorenza Indovina, St�phane Freiss, Andrea Renzi, Laurent Terzieff, Ludovica Modugno, Omero Antonutti, Eros Pagni, Gabriele Parrillo. Prod.: Arturo La Pegna, Massimiliano La Pegna, C.E.P. Produzione, Viale Giulio Cesare 14, 00191 Rome (Italie), (39-06) 3221444, fax: (39-06) 3221275. Sales: Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, Via Barnaba Oriani, 24/A , 00197 Rome (Italie), t�l.: (39-06) 8070400, 8086052, fax: (39-06) 80687855. | |||
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Giovanni Fago Born in Rome in 1933, Giovanni Fago studied history and trained as a pianist before turned to the cinema. He worked as an assistant to numerous directors in the '50s and '60s, including Monicelli, De Sica, Rossellini and Pontecorvo. He made his own debut as a director in 1967 (using the screen name Sydney Lean) with PER CENTOMILA DOLLARI T'AMMAZZO. His filmography includes: UNO DI PI� ALL'INFERNO (1968), O CANGA�EIRO (1969), KIDNAP (1974), IL MAESTRO DI VIOLINO (1976), MORTE A PASSO DI VAZER (1977), MONSIEUR ROSSINI (1978), LA BRACE DEI BIASSOLI (1979), DON LUIGI STURZO (1981), MAI CON LE DONNE (1984), DUE ASSI PER UN TURBO (1985) and LA NOTTE DI COLOMBO (1992). |