“ Margutta Street ” ( Italian: Via Margutta ) is a black and white film directed by Mario Camerini shot in 1960 on the famous Via Margutta , a small street that serves as a haven for the bohemian Roman society of those years - artists, artists, art dealers ...
| Margutta Street | |
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| Via Margutta | |
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| Genre | comedy, drama |
| Producer | Mario Camerini |
| Producer | Gianni Hect Lucari |
| Author script | Franco Bruzati Mario Camerini Ennio De Conchini Hugo Guerra |
| In the main cast | Antonella Lualdi Gerard Blen Franco Fabrizi Yvonne Furno |
| Operator | Leonid Barboni |
| Composer | Piero Piccioni |
| Film company | Documento Film ( Italy ) - Le Louvre Film ( France ) |
| Duration | 93 minutes |
| A country |  Italy  France |
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| Year | 1960 |
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Story
The title of this film refers us to a small street in the heart of Rome, where a group of friends lives: artists, sculptors, singers, art dealers, as well as their lovers and lovers. The film shows a bitter portrait of their bohemian life, between dreams of glory and suffering, their aspirations and disappointments. Several stories are shown in sufficient detail on the screen, which are intertwined as a result into one whole. The relationship between the characters is revealed at the final party, where they all ultimately gather.
Cast
- Antonella Lualdi - Donata
- Gerard Blen - Stefano
- Franco Fabrizi - Josué
- Yvonne Furno - Marta
- Cristina Gayoni - Marisa Machchesi
- Spyros Fokas - Marco Belli
- Claudio Gora - Pippo Cantigliani
- Corrado Pani - a young man
- Alex Nicole - Bill Rogers
- Marion Marshall - Grace
- Vera Decormos - Greta
- Walter Brofferio - episodic role
- Barbara Florian - Carlotta
Premieres
- Italy - August 16, 1960 Premiere in Rome [1] .
- France - June 13, 1962 Premiere in Paris [1] .
- USA - July 15, 1963 [1] .
Interesting Facts
- In the same year that Federico Fellini honors artists on Via Venetto (in Sweet Life ), Camerini pays tribute to another famous Roman street - Margutta .
- Via Margutta became especially popular after the release of the movie “ Roman Vacations ” ( 1953 , directed by William Wyler ) with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in the lead roles.
- Federico Fellini and Juliet Mazina lived on Via Margutta, and actress Anna Magnani , the famous children's writer Gianni Rodari, and countless artists, such as Renato Guttuso , Giorgio De Chirico , settled here [2] .
Literature
- "Director's Encyclopedia. Cinema of Europe", Comp. M.M. Chernenko ; Repl. ed. G.N. Kompanichenko, Scientific researcher Institute of Motion Picture Arts.-M.: Mainland, 2002, (article about Mario Camerini) ISBN 5-85646-077-4
- Moliterno, Gino , Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema, Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth, The Scarecrow Press, 2008 (English) , ISBN 978-0-8108-6073-5
- Sergio Grmek Germani , Mario Camerini , Il Castoro Cinema n. 84, Editrice Il Castoro, 1980 (Italian)
- Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia, Mario Pecorari . Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992 (Italian) . ISBN 8876055932 .
Notes
Links
- Margutta Street on the Internet Movie Database