In High Places (1943 film)
| In High Places | |
|---|---|
 Adriana Benetti and Massimo Serato in a scene from the film | |
| Directed by | Mario Soldati |
| Written by | Jean Anouilh (play) Mario Bonfantini Renato Castellani Steno Ercole Patti Mario Soldati |
| Starring | Adriana Benetti Massimo Serato Nerio Bernardi Enzo Biliotti |
| Cinematography | Otello Martelli Aldo Tonti |
| Edited by | Gisa Radicchi Levi |
| Music by | Giuseppe Rosati |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | ICI |
Release date |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
In High Places (Italian:Quartieri alti) is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Adriana Benetti, Massimo Serato and Nerio Bernardi.[1] It is based on a play by Jean Anouilh, Le Rendez-vous de Senlis,[2] but also on the novel of the same name (Quartieri alti) by Ercole Patti.[3] [4]The film portrays the rise into high society of an immoral young man.[5] It belongs to the movies of the calligrafismo style.
Cast
[edit]- Adriana Benetti as Isabella
- Massimo Serato as Giorgio Zanetti
- Nerio Bernardi as Emilio Buscaglione
- Enzo Biliotti as Febo Marcantoni
- Natalia Ray as Edmea
- Jucci Kellerman as Barbara
- Fanny Marchiò as Donna Lina Rigotti
- Maria Melato as Maria Letizia Bruneschi
- Gina Sammarco as La falsa madre di Giorgio
- Giulio Stival as Il falso padre di Giorgio
- Piero Pastore as Bottarini, il calciatore
- Giuseppe Pierozzi as Il tabaccaio gobbo
- Vittorio Sanipoli as Roberto
- Alfredo Del Pelo as Il chitarrista all1 taverna "Ulpia"
- Gilda Marchiò as L'affituaria della villa
- Marco Monari Rocca as Il conte Giandomenico
References
[edit]- ^ Brunetta p.99
- ^ Positif (in French). Nouvelles éditions Opta. 1999.
- ^ Marrone, Gaetana; Puppa, Paolo (2006-12-26). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-45529-3.
- ^ Goble, Alan (2011-09-08). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.
- ^ Landy p.83-84
Bibliography
[edit]- Brunetta, Gian Piero. The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century. Princeton University Press, 2009.
- Landy, Marcia. The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930-1943. SUNY Press, 1998.
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