Adua e le compagne (1960)

Regisseur:

Antonio Pietrangeli

Drehbuchautoren:

Ruggero Maccari (screenplay)
Ruggero Maccari (story)

Premierendatum:

16. September 1960 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama | Komödie

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Commedia All'italiana | Italian Comedy | Character Name In Title

Nutzerkommentare:

There are so many moments where this could easily have become sentimental and doesn't

Besetzung

Simone Signoret	...	Adua Giovannetti
Marcello Mastroianni	...	Pietro Silvagni
Gina Rovere	...	Caterina Zellero, detta Milly
Sandra Milo	...	Lolita
Emmanuelle Riva	...	Marilina
Claudio Gora	...	Ercoli
Ivo Garrani	...	Lawyer
Gianrico Tedeschi	...	Stefano
Antonio Rais	...	Emilio
Duilio D'Amore	...	Brother Michele
Valeria Fabrizi	...	Fosca la blonda
Luciana Gilli	...	Dora (as Gloria Gilli)
Enzo Maggio	...	Calypso
Italia Marchesini	...	Maid
Michele Riccardini	...	Patron of the trattoria

Alternativ:

Adua and Company
Adua and Her Friends (USA) (festival title)
Hungry for Love (UK)
Love a la Carte (USA)
Adua und ihre Gefährtinnen (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

106 Min | UK:125 Min | Argentina:128 Min

Produktionsland:

Italy

Sprache:

Italienisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Tonverfahren:

Mono

Altersfreigabe:

Finland:K-16 | Argentina:16 | UK:12 (video rating) (2004) | UK:X (original rating)

Firma:

Zebra Film

Soundtrack:

Besame Mucho

There are so many moments where this could easily have become sentimental and doesn't

Very fine, gloriously black and white, very well acted drama involving four girls who decide to pool their resources and run a restaurant together when their brothel is closed down. There are so many moments where this could easily have become sentimental and doesn't and is much to the director's credit that this looks so good throughout. The jazz soundtrack is a great help as are the snatches or 'real life' - the steam trains rushing below car dealer Mastroianni's window, the fine moment in the main street when he passes off Signoret's failing car to another whilst slipping her into one more. But the best of all such sequences is the final shot upon the cobblestoned street in the pouring rain and without a cloying close-up, we all know exactly what the facial expression is. As I say all the acting is good but Signoret particularly puts in another excellent performance where she ranges from sexy to sad and energetic to dejected, but perhaps best of all her verbal onslaught upon 'the landlord'.