Directed by:
Luchino ViscontiCinematography:
Pasqualino De SantisComposer:
Franco ManninoCast:
Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano, Stefano Patrizi, Claudia Cardinale, Dominique Sanda, Claudia Marsani, Guy Tréjan, Romolo Valli (more)Plots(1)
Retired professor of American origin lives solitary life in luxurious palazzo in Rome He is confronted by vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions: her lover, her daughter and daughter's boyfriend and forced to rent to them an apartment on upper floor of his palazzo. From this point his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life is taking unexpected but inevitable turn. (official distributor synopsis)
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Visconti and I never really got along - his world of actors darlings in authentic backdrops, social commentaries, morality that suffers from many taboo topics, grand gestures and vanity observed as if from the safe distance of the director's chair from the detached intellectual... That's not the world I want to deal with. However, the ideas here on how to tame the stoic Burt Lancaster, the dissolute Helmut Berger, and the eloquent Silvana Mangano are quite attractive to the audience. If it weren't for the chilling irony inserted at times, it would have been impossible to experience it.
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