La gazza ladra (short film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | La gazza ladra |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 11 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Giulio Giannini Emanuele Luzzati |
| script | Giulio Giannini Emanuele Luzzati |
| production | Emanuele Luzzati |
| music | Gioachino Rossini |
La gazza ladra (Eng: The Thieving Magpie ) is an Italian animated short film directed by Giulio Giannini and Emanuele Luzzati from 1965.
action
After 100 years of war against each other, three mighty kings join forces to go to war against the birds. Large armies march and shoot numerous birds. A magpie, however, flies to the kings and steals their crowns. Then she picks the feathers from the soldiers' helmets. The kings begin the hunt for the magpie, but it pecks at the clouds and causes heavy rain that makes the sea rise. The kings use their open umbrellas as boats and the magpie forms strong waves with its beak and lets the kings sink, who now have to flee from dangerous fish in the sea.
Over the success of the magpie, which makes the kings smaller and smaller, the other birds are also bolder. The kings flee to their castle and all the birds destroy the building and then fly away.
production
La gazza ladra takes its name from Rossini's opera of the same name, La gazza ladra . The opera's overture serves as the basis for the animation. The content of the film has nothing to do with the content of the opera.
Awards
La gazza ladra was nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film " in 1966, but could not prevail against The Dot and the Line .
Giulio Giannini was awarded the Grand Prix at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 1965.
Web links
- La gazza Ladra in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- La gazza ladra on bcdb.com