Il grido

Infobox Film
name = Il grido


caption =
director = Michelangelo Antonioni
producer = Franco Cancellieri
writer = Michelangelo Antonioni (also story)
Elio Bartolini
Ennio De Concini
starring = Steve Cochran (as Aldo)
Alida Valli (as Irma)
Betsy Blair (as Elvia)
Dorian Gray (as Virginia)
music = Giovanni Fusco
cinematography = Gianni di Venanzo
editing = Eraldo Da Roma
distributor =
released = 1957
runtime = 116 min
country = Italy
USA
language = Italian
budget =
preceded_by = Le amiche
followed_by = L'avventura
amg_id = 1:105239
imdb_id = 0050458

"Il grido" is a 1957 Italian black-and-white drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Its title means "The Outcry", but it was originally released in the English-speaking world as "The Cry"; the DVD release uses the Italian title.

The film stars American actor Steve Cochran, as well as Alida Valli and Betsy Blair. Monica Vitti (uncredited), who was Antonioni's muse, didn't appear on screen, but dubbed Dorian Gray. The film won the Golden Leopard at the eleventh Locarno International Film Festival in 1957. In 1958, Gianni di Venanzo won the Silver Ribbon for Best Cinematography.

ynopsis

The film tells the story of Aldo (Steve Cochran), a worker of an Italian sugar refinery. His long-time lover Irma (portrayed by Alida Valli) suddenly learns that her husband, left to Australia in search of a job, died there. Aldo suggests that this may be a chance for them to marry, but Irma claims that she loves another man. After the quarrel Aldo leaves his town with their daughter and they start desperately wandering all over the Po valley. However, he turns out unable to forget Irma and returns to his town, where a demonstration protests the building of a U.S. military airfield instead of the refinery. There he finds that Irma lives in a new home and through a window watches her with a baby. Deeply depressed, he mounts the refinery's high tower, and, as Irma approaches, leaps.

External links

* [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/03/26/il_grido.html "Il Grido": Modernising the Po] . "Senses of Cinema" 3.
* [http://www.sover.net/~ozus/ilgrido.htm "Il Grido" review]