The red desert
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The red desert |
| Original title | Il deserto rosso |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 117 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| script | Michelangelo Antonioni Tonino Guerra |
| production | Cervi Produzione in Rome |
| music |
Giovanni Fusco Vittorio Gelmetti |
| camera | Carlo di Palma |
| cut | Eraldo Da Roma |
| occupation | |
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| synchronization | |
The Red Desert is a 1964 Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris . The exterior shots were shot in the Italian city of Ravenna and Sardinia , the interior shots in the Incir De Paolis Studios in Rome . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film was released for the first time on December 4, 1964.
action
In the midst of Ravenna's blast furnaces , silos , machine halls and port facilities , the sensitive Giuliana lives with her husband, an engineer, and their young son. The frightening environment in its purposefulness, coldness and impersonality and the inability to adapt professionally and socially to these living conditions in the same way as her husband, caused a neurosis in the young woman . Waking dreams, obsessions and the deep fear of inner emptiness put Giuliana in a desperate position. A suicide attempt (before the start of the plot) failed, Ugo faces the needs of his wife helplessly and without understanding. Only Corrado, a friend of Ugo, seems to understand her. A brief but passionate love affair with Corrado plunges Giuliana into even greater confusion.
Award
In 1964 the film was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival .
Reviews
“In his first color film, Antonioni pursues the thematic and formal approaches from“ Playing with Love ”, 1959,“ The Night ”, 1960 and“ Love 1962 ”(1961) on a new level: The crisis of meaning is radical; After the loss of religious, emotional and social ties, only the sensual surface of things remains, the poetry of which has to be learned and the "meaning" of which has to be found. Antonioni describes the alienation of the heroine with the help of a deliberately unreal color dramaturgy that emphasizes the demonic, but also the fascinating, the industrial world of perception; overcoming this dichotomy appears in the film as a prerequisite for survival. "
“Antonioni's highly sensitive attempt to analyze the emotional reactions of a woman who can no longer find her way in the midst of modern industrial plants. Study marked by great seriousness and formal mastery that can be strongly recommended to thought-provoking adults. "
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Web links
- The red desert in the Internet Movie Database (English)