Lettera aperta a un giornale della sera

1970 Italian film
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Distributed byItal-Noleggio Cinematografico
Release date
  • March 1970 (1970-03)[1]
Running time
121 minutes[2]CountryItalyLanguageItalian

Lettera aperta a un giornale della sera (English titles Open Letter to an Evening Daily and Open Letter to the Evening News) is a 1970 Italian drama film written and directed by Francesco Maselli.[3][4] The film follows the crisis of a group of Communist intellectuals against the background of the Vietnam War.

Cast

  • Nanni Loy: Vanni Dosi
  • Mariella Palmich: Dosi's mistress
  • Piero Faggioni: Faggioni
  • Graziella Galvani: Graziella, Faggioni's wife
  • Daniele Dublino: Dublino
  • Laura De Marchi: Dublino's wife
  • Daniela Surina: Dublino's mistress
  • Francesco Maselli: Saverio
  • Goliarda Sapienza: Saverio's ex-wife
  • Massimo Sarchielli: Sculptor
  • Titina Maselli: Sculptor's wife
  • Nino Dal Fabbro: Professor Nino Dal Fabbro
  • Lorenza Guerrieri: Lorenza, Dal Fabbro's wife
  • Monica Strebel: Monica, Dal Fabbro's ex-mistress
  • Renato Romano: Screenwriter
  • Anna Orso: Screenwriter's wife
  • Luciano Telli: Director
  • Nicole Karen: Director's wife
  • Claudia Rittore: Director's daughter
  • Silverio Blasi: Brandi
  • Barry Fiefield: Pier Maria, publisher
  • Deanna Frosini: Editor's wife
  • Vittorio Duse: Butler
  • Fabienne Fabre: Student
  • Daniele Costantini: Student
  • Riccardo Berlingieri: Student
  • Gianni Sbarra
  • Berto Pelosso
  • Bitti Lusignoli
  • Tanya Lopert: Dyana Stein
  • Gabor Acs: Journalist
  • Paolo Pietrangeli: Singer
  • Randy Lind
  • Nicole Tessier
  • Maurizio Ponzi
  • Marcello Di Martire

Production and release

Lettera aperta a un giornale della sera was shot on 16 mm film[5] in 1968 and 1969 and released in 1970.[6]

References

  1. ^ Miccichè, Lino (1998). Opaque screens: Italian cinema of the 1980s. Marsilio. p. 376.
  2. ^ Open Letter to the Evening News (DVD). No Shame. 2006.
  3. ^ Halligan, Benjamin (2016). Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film. Berghahn Books. p. 177. ISBN 9781785331107.
  4. ^ Geoffrey Nowell-Smith; James Hay; Gianni Volpi (1996). The companion to Italian cinema. London: Cassell, British Film Institute. p. 78.
  5. ^ Moliterno, Gino (2020). Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 304.
  6. ^ Halligan, Benjamin (2016). Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film. Berghahn Books. p. 177. ISBN 9781785331107.
  • Lettera aperta a un giornale della sera at IMDb
  • Lettera aperta a un giornale della sera at Cinematografo
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