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Travolti da un insolito destino nell’azzurro mare d’agosto (Swept away... by an unusual destiny in the blue sea of August)

Venice Classics
Director:
Lina Wertmüller
Production:
Medusa Film
Running Time:
114'
Language:
Italian
Country:
Italy
Year:
1974
Main Cast:
Mariangela Melato, Giancarlo Giannini, Riccardo Salvino, Eros Pagni, Isa Danieli, Aldo Puglisi, Luis Suarez, Lucrezia De Domizio, Lorenzo Piani, Vittorio Fanfoni, Giuseppe Durini, Anna Melita
Screenplay:
Lina Wertmüller
Cinematographer:
Giulio Battiferri, Ennio Guarnieri
Editor:
Franco Fraticelli
Music:
Piero Piccioni
Sound:
Mario Bramonti
Restoration:
Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, Minerva Pictures, Mediaset
Laboratory:L’Immagine Ritrovata

Synopsis

On an elegant yacht cruising off the sun- drenched coast of Sardinia, a beautiful and aggressive woman expounds her usual contradictory views as a privileged left-wing liberal. The Sicilian sailor on board listens with seething hatred and indignation at his employer’s arrogance. But fate is about to drastically overturn events and weave a completely different scenario when on an afternoon swim, the two are carried away by a violent current and only find safety on a deserted island. In this extreme situation where the sailor, well-versed in the vital law of survival, becomes the dominant force in the relationship, and his previous “master” is relegated to a humiliating dependency and subservience, the woman is slowly aroused by feelings of brutal desire. As the real world and its concerns as she had always known them recede ever more into the distance, and this new physical passion becomes the only meaningful existing reality, she willingly succumbs to the man, as his slave, and to the ecstasy of their violent lovemaking.

Director's Statement

I’ve never made a comedy in my life. My films are “grotesque”. The word grotesque derives its first meaning from those bizarre sculptures that were formed in caves [...], the term was then extended to everything that is deformed in reality. For this reason, in my films, I use the grotesque key which allows me to accentuate certain characters, to draw them with a more marked and ironic line. Which has nothing to do with comedy or the comedic.

Production/Distribution

PRODUCTION 1:
Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna
Via Riva di Reno 72
40122, Bologna, Italia
Tel. 39 051 2194826
cinetecadirezione@cineteca.bologna.it

PRODUCTION 2:
Minerva Pictures
Via Marcella 4-6
000153, Roma, Italia
Tel. 39 06 84242430
info@minervapictures.com

PRODUCTION 3:
RTI SpA
Viale Europa 46
20093, Cologno Monzese, Milano

ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION:
RTI SpA
Viale Europa 46
20093, Cologno Monzese, Milano
Tel. 39 02 25149198
Anna Maria Napoli - anna.napoli@mediaset.it

INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION:
Minerva Pictures
Via Marcella 4-6
000153, Roma, Italia
Tel. 39 06 84242430
Monica Ciarli - sales@minervapictures.com

 


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