The making of the film started 1943 and was completed in 1947 after the war-length interruption. The story is one of the lands and the people to which Antonioni is very well acquainted and to which he will go back with several other works. The environment and its decisive influence on the characters’ evolution is central to the films of the director from Ferrara, whose films however do not quite apply to the neorealism direction, a turn which Italian cinema was about to take.

Il regista / The Director

Antonioni was born in Ferrara in 1912, after university he studies at the Centro Nazionale di Cinematografia and writes for “Cinema” magazine. His debuting works, such as 1948’s N.U, bare a documentary style. In 1950 Cronaca di un amore signs his debut in fiction feature film making. L’avventura, 1960, is a turning point for modern cinema and his following films La notte, 1961, L’eclissi, 1962, Deserto rosso, 1964 e Blow-up, 1966 tread that wake.

Produzione / Production

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