Neapolitan Carousel (Italian: Carosello napoletano) is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Ettore Giannini and starring Léonide Massine, Achille Millo and Agostino Salvietti. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival,[1] winning its International Prize.[2][3] It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome and on location in Naples. The film's sets were designed by the art director Mario Chiari.
| Neapolitan Carousel | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Ettore Giannini |
| Written by | Remigio Del Grosso Ettore Giannini Giuseppe Marotta |
| Produced by | Carlo Ponti |
| Starring | Léonide Massine Achille Millo Agostino Salvietti |
| Cinematography | Piero Portalupi |
| Edited by | Niccolò Lazzari |
| Music by | Raffaele Gervasio |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Lux Film |
Release date |
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Running time | 129 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[4]
Cast
edit- Léonide Massine as Antonio 'Pulcinella' Petito
- Achille Millo as Pulcinella's son
- Agostino Salvietti as Prompter
- Clelia Matania as Donna Concetta
- Paolo Stoppa as Salvatore Esposito
- Maria Fiore as Donna Brigida
- Tina Pica as Capera
- Maria Pia Casilio as Nannina
- Giacomo Rondinella as Luigino
- Sophia Loren as Sisina
- Dolores Palumbo as Sisina's mother
- Loris Gizzi as Erik Gustaffson
- Alberto Bonucci as Lyricist #1
- Vittorio Caprioli as Lyricist #2
- Carlo Mazzarella as Baron
- Vera Nandi as Lilì Kangy
- Yvette Chauviré as Margherita
- Folco Lulli as Don Raffaele
- Antonio Cifariello as Don Armando
- Nadia Gray as The beautiful beggar
- Tino Buazzelli as Capitan Spaccatrippa
- Enrico Viarisio as The Spanish tourist
- Guglielmo Barnabò as The German tourist
- Galeazzo Benti as The French tourist
- Franco Coop as The English tourist
References
edit- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Neapolitan Carousel". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 25 January 2009.
- ^ "Awards 1954: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
- ^ "1954 - Le Jury, Les Prix". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- ^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
Bibliography
edit- Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991.
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