- Long Night in 1943
Infobox Film
name = La lunga notte del '43
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director =Florestano Vancini
producer =Tonino Cervi ,Alessandro Jacovoni
writer =Florestano Vancini ,Ennio De Concini ,Pier Paolo Pasolini ,Giorgio Bassani (novel)
starring =Raffaella Pelloni ,Belinda Lee ,Gabriele Ferzetti ,Enrico Maria Salerno ,Andrea Checchi
music =Carlo Rustichelli
cinematography =Carlo Di Palma
editing =Nino Baragli
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released = 1960
runtime = 110 min
country = Italy
language = Italian
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imdb_id = 0054039"Long Night in 1943", "The Long Night of '43" or "It Happened in '43" (original Italian title - "La lunga notte del '43") is an Italian film of 1960 set during the
Allied invasion of Italy in1943 during theSecond World War . It was directed byFlorestano Vancini and adapted by Vancini,Ennio De Concini andPier Paolo Pasolini from a novel byGiorgio Bassani . At the 1960Venice Film Festival , the film won Vancini the award for Best First Work and a nomination for theGolden Lion (losing out to "Le Passage du Rhin ").Plot
The young wife of a wheelchair-bound man starts an affair with an Italian Army desertor, just as a fanatical local Fascist leader massacres his opponents to seize power. Among those opponents is the desertor's father.
Cast
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Belinda Lee - Anna Barilari
*Gabriele Ferzetti - Franco Villani
*Enrico Maria Salerno - Pino Barilari (winning aSilver Ribbon for Best Supporting Actor at the 1961 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists awards)
*Andrea Checchi - The pharmacist
*Nerio Bernardi - Villani the lawyer
*Isa Querio - Signora Villani
*Raffaella Pelloni - Ines, Franco's sister
*Loris Bazzocchi - Vincent
*Carlo Di Maggio - Conosole Bolognesi
*Alice Clements - Blanche Villani, Franco's wifeExternal links
*imdb title|0054039
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