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Police seize Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Decameron by order of state prosecutors from Ancona and Sulmona. The film is based on the tales by Boccaccio. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis), Italian director Vittorio De Sica’s depiction of Italy’s involvement in the Holocaust, is released. Dominique Sanda, Helmut Berger, Lino Capolicchio star. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Italy 1971: Other Films of Note |
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La Classe operaia va in Paradiso (Elio Petri) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Durante l'estate (TV) (Ermanno Olmi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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I Clowns (Federico Fellini) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Morte a Venezia (Death in Venice) (Luchino Visconti) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Socrate (Roberto Rossellini) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 27/1 - |
Left-wing actor Gian Maria Volonte turns down an offer from Hollywood for 250 million lira (approximately $160,000, stating that his left-wing sympathies prevent him from accepting such a high wage. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 17/2 - |
French actor Pierre Clémenti goes on trial in Rome for possession of drugs. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Federico Fellini's Roma, a celebration of the Italian capital, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Anglo-Franco-Italian co-production The Assassination of Trotsky is released. Directed by Joseph Losey, the film stars Richard Burton as Trotsky and Alain Delon as the communist agent assigned to murder him. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Pier Paolo Pasolini's I Racconti di Canterbury is placed under judicial impoundment. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Il Caso Mattei (Francesco Rosi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Ludwig (Luchino Visconti) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Nel nome del padre (Mario Bellocchio) [MORE] [ADD] |
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L’Ospite (Liliana Cavani) [MORE] [ADD] |
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San Michele aveva un gallo (Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani) [MORE] [ADD] |
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A court in Bologna lifts the ban on Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris after acquitting the director of obscenity charges [MORE] [ADD} |
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Luchino Visconti’s ‘German decadence’ trilogy is completed with the release of Ludwig, The story of Ludwig II of Bavaria. Helmut Berger stars in the title role, with Trevor Howard as Richard Wagner and Romy Schneider as Elizabeth of Austria. [MORE] [ADD} |
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Federico Fellini’s Amarcord, largely based on memories of his own childhood, is released. [MORE] [ADD} |
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Allonsanfan (Paulo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani) [MORE] [ADD} |
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La Città del sole (Gianni Amelio) [MORE] [ADD} |
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Lucky Luciano (Francesco Rosi) [MORE] [ADD} |
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| 10/12 - | Luchino Visconti's Gruppo de famiglia in un interno (Conversation Piece), starring Burt Lancaster and Silvana Mangano, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Anno Uno (Italy Year One) (Roberto Rossellini) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Il Fiore delle mille e una notte (A Thousand and One Nights) (Pier Paolo Pasolini) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Il Portiere di notte (The Night Porter) (Liliana Cavani) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Il Viaggio (Vittorio di Sica) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 28/2 - |
Michelangelo Antonioni's Professione: reporter (The Passenger), in which Jack Nicholson plays a jaded reporter who swaps identities with a corpse that bears a remarkable resemblance to him, is released. Maria Schneider also stars. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 27/9 - |
Luchino Visconti, wheelchair-bound since a fall in April, begins filming his screen version of Gabriele D'Annunzio’s novel L'Innocente (The Innocent), starring Giancarlo Giannini and Laura Antonelli. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 30/10 - |
Controversial 51-year-old director Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered near the shantytown at Ostia. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 6/11 - |
The Italian Communist Party elects to handle all the funeral arrangements and the commemorative service to be held at the Campo del Fiori for director Pier Paolo Pasolini [MORE] [ADD] |