“The Beautiful Mill ” ( Italian: La bella mugnaia ) - 1955 comedy directed by Mario Camerini , with the participation of the brilliant actors Vittorio De Sica , Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni . Historical comedy, the second film adaptation of the play "The Triangular Hat" by Spanish author Pedro Antonio de Alarcon . The first film adaptation of the same work - “The Triangular Hat” was carried out two decades earlier (in 1935 ) by the same director Mario Camerini , but then, during the fascist dictatorship, the film was shortened at the insistence of Benito Mussolini himself , in this case the director inserted into the film those “seditious” scenes that were censored under the Duce regime.
| Beautiful mill | |
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| La bella mugnaia | |
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| Genre | comedy |
| Producer | Mario Camerini |
| Producer | Dino De Laurentis Carlo Ponti |
| Author script | Mario Camerini Augusto Camerini Sandro Kontinenza Ennio De Conchini Ivo Perilli |
| In the main cast | Vittorio De Sica , Marcello Mastroianni , Sophia Loren |
| Operator | Enzo Serafin |
| Composer | Angelo Francesco Lavagnino |
| Film company | Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica, Titanus |
| Duration | 98 minutes |
| A country |  Italy |
| Language | |
| Year | 1955 |
| IMDb | ID 0047871 |
Content
- 1 plot
- 2 Cast
- 3 Premieres
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
- 6 Literature
Story
The film is set in Naples in the 17th century , during the Spanish occupation of Southern Italy . Miller Luca ( Marcello Mastroianni ) gets involved in a popular uprising and gets into custody. The Spanish governor-general Don Teofilo ( Vittorio De Sica ), a famous womanizer who has long laid eyes on Luca Carmela's pretty wife ( Sophia Loren ), decides to take advantage of the situation by suggesting that the beauty release Luke from prison on certain conditions ... to satisfy his lustful desires. While Carmela, having drunk Don Teofilo and having put him to sleep, was escaping to prison to Luka, he, in turn, had already escaped and was rushing headlong home, blinded by jealousy. Having rushed home, Luka finds himself in his bed the sleeping governor and, in the heat of jealousy, decides to take revenge, namely, to seduce and dishonor the wife of Governor General Dolores ( Yvonne Sanson ). Awakened don Theofilo reads Luke’s message left to him, where he sets out his intentions for revenge and also runs to his castle in order to prevent consequences.
Cast
- Vittorio De Sica - Don Teofilo
- Marcello Mastroianni - Luca, Miller
- Sophia Loren - Carmela, his wife
- Virgilio Riento - Salvatore
- Elsa Wazzoler - Concettina
- Paolo Stopp - Gardunio
- Yvonne Sanson - Donna Dolores
- Mario Passante - captain of the gendarmes
- Carlo Sposito - Pasqualino
- Vittorio Braschi - Nicoletto
- Carlo Pisacane - episode (uncredited)
- Giancarlo Cobelli - Don Luca (not credited)
Premieres
- Italy - October 27, 1955 .
- Germany - January 31, 1956 .
- Sweden - February 14, 1957 .
- USA - June 11, 1957 .
Notes
Links
- The Beautiful Millman on the Internet Movie Database
Literature
- Warren Harris , Sophia Loren, M .: - Eksmo, 2007, pp. 102-103, ISBN 978-5-699-21239-2
- "Director's Encyclopedia. Cinema of Europe", Comp. M.M. Chernenko ; Repl. ed. G.N. Kompanichenko, Scientific researcher Institute of Motion Picture Arts.-M .: Materik, 2002, ISBN 5-85646-077-4