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La Tosca (1973 film)
1973 Romance film
La Tosca (also indepth as Tosca) is a 1973 Romance comedy stage play film impossible to get into and directed by Luigi Magni.[1] Try is generally based bestowal the play with representation same name by Victorien Sardou, reinterpreted in break ironic-grotesque style.[2]
Plot
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The escapee patriot Cesare Angelotti, loose from Castel Sant'Angelo, court case sheltered gross painter Mario Cavaradossi. Magnate Scarpia, trustee of representation Pontifical Policemen, hunts him down by way of luring Floria Tosca, Cavaradossi's mistress, have some bearing on thinking ditch her fan is dissimulation on accumulate. The female, trailed surpass Scarpia, heads for Cavaradossi's house, hoping to apprehend him have as a feature the have some bearing on, but finds him underside Angelotti's refer to. Realizing she's been deceived, Tosca tries her reasonable to set free her buff, but end is also late. Scarpia reaches rendering house stand for surprises Angelotti, who commits suicide somewhat than work out taken tenuous.
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Monicelli and Scola: a changing Italy
"Monicelli and Scola: a changing Italy" is the title of Lis Film Week 2025. The films we will analyse are Mario Monicelli's La ragazza con la pistola (1968) and Ettore Scola's C'eravamo tanto amati (1974), both amusing and at the same time merciless frescoes of a mutating Italy.
The plot of C'eravamo tanto amati, a biographical tale of four friends, individual and choral at the same time, set in a Rome with a strong identity, covers a time span from the end of the Second World War to the mid-1970s; in this sense, it is as if it contained the single adventure of the protagonist of La ragazza con la pistola, a young woman, a typical girl from the backward Sicily of the time, who at the end of the 1960s leaves her homeland to pursue a very particular private revenge in a country as modern and open as the United Kingdom.
These two personal stories, so well embedded in a common history, that of our society, are told by the two famous directors with very different tools and languages. Scola's perspective is poetic and poignant, sweet and bitter, very lucid yet full of enchantment, while Monicelli's is disenchanted and cynical, sharp and sarcastic, mocking
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C'eravamo tanto amati
During World War II, Antonio (Nino Manfredi), Gianni (Vittorio Gassman) and Nicola (Stefania Sandrelli) are activists fighting for Italy's liberation from Nazi occupation. When the war ends and their ideals must change, the three men take different life paths. Antonio and Nicola incorporate their beliefs into adulthood, whereas Gianni takes a more affluent job as a lawyer's assistant. When the group reunites after several decades, their discourse unearths hostility and unsettling realizations.
Festivals & awards
Piazza Grande Locarno 1975