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Film

La statua vivente

(A Living Statue)

Histoire(s) du cinéma

Italy · 1943 · DCP 4K · Black and White · 76' · o.v. Italian

Restoration from a second-generation 16mm safety positive with Spanish subtitles, found in Argentina by Fernando Martín Peña.

Screening

Friday 13 | 8 | 2021, 16:00 · PalaCinema 1 · Sub. Spa.

Introduced by Sergio Germani

The sailor Paolo falls in love with Luisa and marries her, but, on the day of their wedding the girl dies in a car accident. While indulging in alcohol to forget, he meets a woman, Rita, who bears a striking resemblance to his lost beloved. Based on Teobaldo Ciconi’s play La statua di carne (1862), this remarkable film seems to anticipate Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958).

Information

Director

Camillo Mastrocinque

Cast

Laura Solari, Fosco Giachetti, Camillo Pilotto

Producer

Giulio Zaccheo

Cinematography

Aldo Tonti

Editing

Duilio A. Lucarelli

Music

Dan Caslar, Alessandro Cicognini

Production

Kinofilm

Print

La Cineteca del Friuli
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