
La Notte (1961)
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- Not Rated
- 2h 2min
- Drama
- 19 Feb 1962 (USA)
- Movie
- 6 wins & 4 nominations.
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Cast verified as complete
Marcello Mastroianni | ... |
Giovanni Pontano
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Jeanne Moreau | ... |
Lidia Pontano
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Monica Vitti | ... |
Valentina Gherardini
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Bernhard Wicki | ... |
Tommaso Garani
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Rosy Mazzacurati | ... |
Resy
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Maria Pia Luzi | ... |
La ninfomana all'ospedale
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Guido A. Marsan | ... |
Il signor Fanti
(as Guido Ajmone Marsan)
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Vittorio Bertolini |
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Vincenzo Corbella | ... |
Il signor Gherardini
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Ugo Fortunati | ... |
Cesarino
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Gitt Magrini | ... |
La signora Gherardini
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Giorgio Negro | ... |
Roberto
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Roberta Speroni | ... |
Berenice
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Valentino Bompiani | ... |
Sé stesso (uncredited)
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Roberto Danesi | ... |
(uncredited)
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Umberto Eco | ... |
Un invitato alla festa (uncredited)
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Giansiro Ferrata | ... |
(uncredited)
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Giorgio Gaslini | ... |
Sé stesso (uncredited)
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Alceo Guatelli | ... |
(uncredited)
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Odile Jean | ... |
(uncredited)
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Ottiero Ottieri | ... |
Sé stesso (uncredited)
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Salvatore Quasimodo | ... |
Sé stesso (uncredited)
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Ettore Univelli | ... |
(uncredited)
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Eraldo Volonté | ... |
(uncredited)
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Directed by
Michelangelo Antonioni |
Written by
Michelangelo Antonioni | ... | (story) & |
Ennio Flaiano | ... | (story) & |
Tonino Guerra | ... | (story) |
Michelangelo Antonioni | ... | (screenplay) & |
Ennio Flaiano | ... | (screenplay) & |
Tonino Guerra | ... | (screenplay) |
Produced by
Emanuele Cassuto | ... | producer |
Music by
Giorgio Gaslini |
Cinematography by
Gianni Di Venanzo |
Editing by
Eraldo Da Roma |
Editorial Department
Jacopo Stelluti | ... | digital restoration conforming |
Graziano Giordani | ... | restoration colorist (uncredited) |
Production Design by
Piero Zuffi |
Makeup Department
Micheline Chaperon | ... | makeup artist: Jeanne Moreau (as Mimí Chaperon) |
Franco Freda | ... | makeup artist |
Simone Knapp | ... | hair stylist: Jeanne Moreau (as Simone Knapp Dougué) |
Amalia Paoletti | ... | hair stylist |
Production Management
Roberto Cocco | ... | production supervisor |
Paolo Frascà | ... | production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Franco Indovina | ... | assistant director |
Berto Pelosso | ... | assistant director (as Umberto Pelosso) |
Art Department
Mauro Bertinotti | ... | assistant production designer |
Giuseppe Ranieri | ... | assistant production designer |
Mario Solá | ... | assistant production designer |
Sound Department
Claudio Maielli | ... | sound technician |
Antonio Catalano | ... | sound restoration (uncredited) |
Camera and Electrical Department
Pasqualino De Santis | ... | camera operator (as Pasquale De Santis) |
Sergio Strizzi | ... | still photographer |
Erico Menczer | ... | assistant camera (uncredited) |
Music Department
Giorgio Gaslini | ... | musician |
Alceo Guatelli | ... | musician: saxophone |
Ettore Univelli | ... | musician: double bass |
Eraldo Volonté | ... | musician: drums |
Script and Continuity Department
Liana Ferri | ... | script supervisor |
Additional Crew
Emanuele Cassuto | ... | presenter |
Yves Brainville | ... | french voice dubbing: Barnhard Wicki (uncredited) |
Jean-Henri Chambois | ... | french voice dubbing: Vincenzo Corbella (uncredited) |
Mario Feliciani | ... | italian voice dubbing: Vincenzo Corbella (uncredited) |
Roland Ménard | ... | french voice dubbing: Marcello Mastroianni (uncredited) |
Andreina Pagnani | ... | italian voice dubbing: Jeanne Moreau (uncredited) |
Giuseppe Rinaldi | ... | italian voice dubbing: Giorgio Negro (uncredited) |
Martine Sarcey | ... | french voice dubbing: Monica Vitti (uncredited) |
Romolo Valli | ... | italian voice dubbing: Bernhard Wicki (uncredited) |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Dino de Laurentiis Distribuzione (1961) (Italy) (theatrical) (as Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica Distribuzione S.p.A.)
- United Artists (1961) (France) (theatrical)
- Movietime (1961) (World-wide)
- Die Lupe (1961) (West Germany) (theatrical)
- Triangelfilm (1961) (Norway) (theatrical)
- United Artists (1961) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- United Artists (1961) (West Germany) (theatrical)
- C.B. Films S.A. (1962) (Spain) (theatrical)
- Lopert Pictures Corporation (1962) (United States) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- Towa. (1962) (Japan) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- United Artists (1962) (United Kingdom) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- United Artists (1962) (Belgium) (theatrical)
- France 3 (1976) (France) (tv)
- Eion (1987) (Japan) (VHS)
- Fox Lorber (2001) (United States) (DVD) (subtitled)
- I.V.C. (2004) (Japan) (DVD)
- Umbrella Entertainment (2006) (Australia) (DVD) (subtitled)
- Medusa Home Entertainment (2008) (Italy) (DVD)
- Eureka Entertainment (2013) (United Kingdom) (Blu-ray) (DVD) (subtitled)
- Eureka Entertainment (2013) (United Kingdom) (DVD) (subtitled)
- The Criterion Collection (2013) (United States) (DVD) (subtitled)
- Rialto Pictures (2016) (United States) (theatrical) (reissue) (subtitled)
- ANEC (2018) (Japan) (Blu-ray) (remastered version)
- Cinefil WOWOW (2018) (Japan) (tv) (subtitled)
- Leopardo Filmes (2021) (Portugal)
- Rank Filmes de Portugal (Portugal) (theatrical)
- Altomedia. Co. Ltd. (Korea) (DVD)
- Altomedia. Co. Ltd. (Korea) (VHS)
- Globo Vídeo (Brazil) (video)
- The Criterion Channel (2024) (United States) (tv) (streaming)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Aurélien Plancher (post-production facilities) (DCP from restoration)
- Fono Roma (sound recording)
- Giorgio Gaslini Quartet (orchestra)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
Giovanni and Lidia have been married for several years now and their marriage has become a functional arrangement, devoid of love--and any other emotion. They go through the motions but barely care anymore. After visiting a dying friend, their time together is filled with long silences. Lidia visits a neighborhood where they once lived but little has changed there. At a party that evening, Giovanni spends time with a beautiful woman and Lidia spends time with a playboy. The party goes on all night, and by the next morning, Giovanni and Lidia start to try to work out their difficulties. Written by garykmcd |
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Taglines | Many nights led to this night, nights of time, nights of fear, nights of love, nights of loneliness, nights of pursuit and conquest, nights without privacy, and this night - a night of truth. See more » |
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Trivia | This movie was one of Stanley Kubrick's 10 favorite films and received four votes from critics and six votes from directors in the 2012 Sight & Sound greatest films poll. See more » |
Goofs | When Giovanni pours champagne in the hospital, Bernhard Wicki (Tommaso) looks straight into the camera while turning his head from Lidia to Giovanni. See more » |
Movie Connections | Featured in Episode dated 1 December 1961 (1961). See more » |
Quotes |
Lidia:
[reading from a piece of paper]
"When I awoke this morning, you were still asleep. As I slowly emerged from my slumber, I heard your gentle breathing and through the wisps of hair over your face I saw your closed eyes and I could barely contain my emotion. I wanted to cry out, to wake you up, because you slept so deeply, you almost seemed lifeless. In the half light, the skin of your arms and throat appeared so vibrant, so warm and dry that I longed to press my lips against it, but the thought of disturbing your sleep, of you awake in my arms again, held me back. I preferred you like this, something on one could take from me bacause it was mine alone - - this image of you that would be everlasting. Beyond your face I saw my own reflection in a vision that was pure and deep. I saw you in a dimension that encompassed all the times of my life, all the years to come, even the years past as I was preparing to meet you. That was the little miracle of this waking moment: to feel for the first time that you were and always would be mine and that this night would go on forever with you beside me, - with the warmth of your blood, your thoughts, and your will mixed with mine. At that moment, I realized how much I loved you, Lidia, and the intensity of the emotion was such that tears welled up in my eyes. For I felt that this must never end, that all our lives should be like an echo of this dawn, with you no belonging to me but actually a part of me, something breathing within me that could could ever destroy except the apathy of habit, which is the only threat I see. Then you awoke and with a sleepy smile, kissed me, and I felt there was nothing to fear that we'd always be as we were at that moment, bound by something stronger than time and habit." See more » |