• Jun 17, 1955
  • 81 min
  • Full-HD

Wild Love (1955)

Despite of (or perhaps because of ) its sparse production values and unpretentiousness, the Italian Gli Innamorati was feted at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. The bulk of the story takes place in a single Roman neighborhood. In the manner of the 1925 German classic A Joyless Street, director Mauro Bolognini studies the hopes, dreams, successes and failures of the neighborhood's various and sundry denizens. No one subplot dominates the proceedings, though a bit of extra time is afforded the story of a fickle seamstress and her seemingly meek-and-mild boyfriend. The cast is dotted with such reassuringly familiar faces as Nino Manfredi and Gino Cervi. Released in the US as Wild Love, Gli Innamorati was instrumental in bringing international fame to director Bolognini, whose career soon shifted into high drive.

Category
Country
France Italy
Companies
Films Metzger et Woog Alessandro Iacovoni Produzione Cinematografica

Antonella Lualdi

Adriana Latini, hairdresser

Franco Interlenghi

Franco

Sergio Raimondi

Nando 'Nandello' Latini, Adriana's brother

Valeria Moriconi

Marisa

Nino Manfredi

Otello, hairdresser

Nadia Bianchi

Alba Del Bosco, diva of comics

Oscar Blando

Er Gratta

Decimo Cristiani

Luciano

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