Anna (1951)

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Movie
German title Anna
Original title Anna
Country of production Italy , France
original language Italian
Publishing year 1951
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Alberto Lattuada
script Giuseppe Berto ,
Franco Brusati ,
Ivo Perilli ,
Dino Risi ,
Rodolfo Sonego
production Dino De Laurentiis ,
Carlo Ponti ,
Pierre-Gurgo Salice
music Nino Rota
camera Otello Martelli
cut Gabriele Varriale
occupation

Anna is an Italian-French co-production from 1951 . The Italian director Alberto Lattuada directed the melodrama . Silvana Mangano can be seen in the lead role as lay sister Anna.

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Anna, a young lay sister, is very popular with her patients. The young woman wants to take her vows as soon as possible . One night an accident victim is hospitalized and Anna is painfully confronted with her past at the sight of the man. It's Andrea, to whom Anna was once engaged. While he is being operated on, the young woman's thoughts go back into the past. She also thinks of Vittorio, a barman with whom she had a passionate relationship. When she met Andrea and they both fell seriously in love, Vittorio fought doggedly for her. Anna eluded him by escaping to Andrea on the estate. But here too Vittorio pursued them and even did not shrink from violence. Andrea came to her aid. Vittorio suddenly had a gun in his hand and wounded Anna on the shoulder. The two men were fighting when suddenly a shot went off and Vittorio was fatally hit.

Anna remembers that she came to this hospital to heal her shoulder injury and that it was here that she made the decision to become a nun and put her life in the service of others. When she later sits by Andrea's bed, she feels torn. She still loves Andrea. When he is better, Andrea asks her again to become his wife. After a moment's hesitation, she says yes to him. She now wants to give up her future life as a nun and also leave the hospital forever. On the day they say goodbye, however, a serious train accident occurs with numerous injuries who have to be treated in their hospital. Anna knows that she is needed now and does without Andrea. She will become a nun and in future dedicate her life entirely to nursing.

Production, publication, background

The film was shot at the Ponti-De Laurentiis Studios in Rome. It started operating in Italy on December 20, 1951. It was released in France on September 26, 1952. The film also opened in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1952, as well as in Great Britain and Portugal. In 1953 it premiered in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and the USA.

Armando Trovajoli was hired by Alberto Lattuada to write the soundtrack for Anna . Among them was the world hit El Negro Zumbon . Another popular song that appears in the film is Non dimenticar . Singer Flo Sandon’s voiced lead actress Silvana Mangano in both cases. The best known version of Non dimenticar comes from Nat King Cole (1961). In 1962, Dean Martin also recorded the song for his album Italian Love Songs .

Sophia Loren can be seen in this film in a tiny role as Vittorio's assistant in the nightclub. She was not mentioned in the credits at the time.

criticism

The Lexicon of International Films noted, "[with] this film Lattuada moved away from neorealism in order to reach a broad audience with thick melodrama."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silvana Mangano and the song El Negro Zumbon from the film Anna
  2. ↑ Silvana Mangano sings Non Dimenticar in the film Anna
  3. ↑ Massimo Baldone: Flo Sandon. (PDF) In: Il Discobolo. Museo Virtuale del Disco e dello Spettacolo Radio, p. 3 , accessed on August 1, 2019 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Non Dimenticar , sung by Nat King Cole
  5. ↑ Non Dimentica r , sung by Dean Martin
  6. ^ Sophia Loren in Anna . In: imdb.com .
  7. ↑ Anna. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 12, 2015 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used