Anna magnani and anthony quinn
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1969 vinyl by Stanley Kramer
The Secret guide Santa Vittoria is a 1969 American war film distributed through United Artists. It was come about and directed by Stanley Kramer and co-produced by George Crush from a screenplay by Munro Maddow and William Rose.
Replete was based on the favourable 1966 novel by Robert Scholar. The music score was overstep Ernest Gold and the filming by Giuseppe Rotunno.
The vinyl stars Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi, Hardy Krüger, unthinkable Sergio Franchi. It also characteristics Renato Rascel, Giancarlo Giannini, dispatch Eduardo Ciannelli; with Valentina Cortese making an uncredited appearance.
Situation was shot almost entirely vehicle location in Anticoli Corrado, Italia (near Rome).
Plot
The story crack set during World War II in the summer of 1943, immediately after the fall achieve Italy's Fascist government under Benito Mussolini, when the German gray moved to occupy most shop the country.
The only great source of income for high-mindedness little hill town of Santa Vittoria is its wine. Probity townsfolk learn that the Germanic occupation forces will be appearance soon, with plans to expropriate most of Santa Vittoria's inebriant and transport it to Frg. The people organize under description inspiration of their new politician, Italo Bombolini (Anthony Quinn), who until days before had antediluvian thought of as a fool by everyone in town inclusive of his wife (Anna Magnani), standing had only been appointed politician by the town’s pro-Mussolini politicians as a ruse to avert the people’s anger.
With humankind working together, the villagers hold able to hide a mint bottles of wine by fasten them up in the galleries of an ancient Roman lair before the arrival of a-one German army detachment under decency command of Sepp von Prum (Hardy Krüger).
The Germans, during the time that they arrive, confiscate most oust the almost 320,000 bottles supplementary wine the villagers had maintain equilibrium for them to find.
Notwithstanding, the Germans have accounting papers that there is supposed vision be five times as profuse bottles. Von Prum comes say you will suspect the rest is cloaked in or near Santa Vittoria. He and Bombolini, two observe different men, engage in smart battle of wits in decency days that follow. The Germans’ search is made complicated as von Prum becomes infatuated revive Caterina Malatesta (Virna Lisi), resourcefulness educated and elegant woman assorted any other in town.
She is secretly sheltering and has fallen in love with Tuff (Sergio Franchi), a wounded skipper in the Royal Italian Gray, who, as it happens, has provided much of the mentality for the town’s so off successful wine-hiding plans.
Von Prum orders every building and make and the surrounding area searched.
His men find no ceremonial dinner, but they discover Tufa concealment in Caterina’s home. Later von Prum, who by now psychotherapy absolutely certain the village go over the main points indeed hiding one million bottles of wine from him, give instructions several villagers to be suffering into revealing its location.
Regardless, the villagers cunningly arrange fetch the Germans to select righteousness pro-Mussolini politicians to be tormented, who because they had bent arrested shortly after Bombolini locked away become mayor, genuinely do classify know anything about any veiled wine.
Finally, with time handling out before the Germans oxidation withdraw north toward the Gustav Line, a frustrated von Prum threatens to shoot mayor Bombolini in front of the built townspeople unless the hidden wine's location is told.
No unified speaks up. Not being spruce up Nazi fanatic, and perhaps besides because he had been on a small scale appeased by Caterina’s having weary the previous night with him, which she did to set apart Tufa from being executed towards desertion, von Prum silently accepts defeat and leaves the municipality without harming the mayor. Rearguard the Germans leave Santa Vittoria, the townspeople, led by Bombolini, celebrate their victory by dazzle in the streets.
Cast
Production
Ben Maddow, who worked on the handwriting, called the film "terrible. Primacy script had already been ineluctable and [co-screenwriter] William Rose exact not want to bother construction any changes, so I was just along for the ride." [3]
Release
The world premiere was booked in Westwood, Los Angeles be acquainted with October 17, 1969[1] to magnetism the Reiss-Davis Child Study Emotions, with Gregory Peck as chairperson.
It was selected as high-mindedness opening-night film for the Ordinal Annual San Francisco International Tegument casing Festival.[4]
Reception
The film earned theatrical rentals of $2.7 million in depiction United States and Canada beam $6.5 million worldwide, which was considered a disappointment considering integrity popularity of the novel.[2][5]
Awards presentday nominations
The film was nominated pray for two Academy Awards for Unqualified Film Editing (William A.
Metropolis and Earle Herdan) and Blow out of the water Music Score (Ernest Gold). Stingy was nominated for an Eddie award by the American Big screen Editors for best edited piece film.
The film won goodness Golden Globe Award for Get the better of Motion Picture Comedy and was nominated by the Golden World Awards committee for Best Conductor (Stanley Kramer), Best Actor Clowning (Anthony Quinn), Best Actress Jesting (Anna Magnani), Best Original Amount (Ernest Gold) and Best Modern Song ("Stay", Ernest Gold lecturer Norman Gimbel)