Island of forbidden love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Island of forbidden love |
| Original title | L'isola di Arturo |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Damiano Damiani |
| script | Damiano Damiani Cesare Zavattini |
| production |
Carlo Ponti Goffredo Lombardo |
| music |
Nino Rota Carlo Rustichelli |
| camera | Roberto Gerardi |
| cut | Adrianna Novelli |
| occupation | |
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Island of Forbidden Love (original title: L'isola di Arturo ) is an Italian drama by director Damiano Damiani from 1962 with Vanni de Maigret in the lead role based on a novel by Elsa Morante .
action
Arturo, 17, lives on a small island in the Gulf of Naples. Since his mother has died, he spends most of the time rowing his boat out to sea by himself. His father Wilhelm works on the mainland, rarely visits him and remains emotionally cautious, which doesn't stop Arturo from loving him idolatrously. One day his father brings the very young Nunziata with him, whom he had previously married on the mainland. Nevertheless, Wilhelm will soon leave for the mainland.
Arturo doesn't like the new constellation and he stays away from the friendly Nunziata. Only when he learns that she is pregnant does he begin to look after her and take on the role of his father. He falls in love with her, but although she seems to reciprocate his feelings, she rejects him, fully committed to her role as the father's wife. Arturo sleeps disappointed with the experienced Silvana, who has tried to seduce him for a long time. When his father returns to the island, he is not interested in his young wife or child, but only in the arrest of Tonino, who came with him to the island and was taken to prison there. Arturo learns that the two men have had a relationship since the war and sees his father in utter desperation, unable to resolve the situation. Arturo decides to leave and leaves the island for the first time.
background
Island of Forbidden Love is Damiano Damiani's third film and his first based on a novel. Damiani had known the couple Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia since the 1950s , and in 1964 he made a film based on a novel by Alberto Moravia called "La noia". The film is set at the time the novel was written in 1957 and is set on the island of Procida in the Gulf of Naples . As in his first film Cross-Examined Innocence , Damiano Damiani worked on the script with Cesare Zavattini . Their implementation of the novel by Elsa Morante, who was regarded as a close observer of Italian reality after the war, still shows a clear proximity to the style of neorealism.
criticism
The lexicon of international films considers the drama to be a “sensitive study of a psychosexual maturation process, captured in atmospheric images”.
Awards
Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián 1962
- Award (Golden Shell) for best film
Web links
- Island of forbidden love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Background and further information on "L'amore in cittá" (blog)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Island of Forbidden Love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .