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Director:
Alberto Bevilacqua
Writers:
Alberto Bevilacqua (novel)
Alberto Bevilacqua (screenplay)
Release Date:
9 November 1971 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Drama more
Awards:
3 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Wonderful soundtrack but the movie is not up to scratch. more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Romy Schneider ... Irene Corsini, La Califfa
Ugo Tognazzi ... Annibale Doberdò
Massimo Farinelli ... Giampiero Doberdò figlio
Marina Berti ... Clementine Doberdò
Guido Alberti ... Il monsignore
Roberto Bisacco ... Bisacco
Gigi Ballista ... Il principe industriale
Massimo Serato ... L'industriale fallito
Eva Brun ... Moglie del fallito
Luigi Casellato ... Questore
Ernesto Colli ... Un operaio
Ugo de Carellis
Enzo Fiermonte ... Operaio sindicalista
Salvatore Lago
Giorgio Piazza
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Lady Caliph
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Runtime:
Argentina:96 min | Spain:112 min
Country:
France | Italy
Language:
Italian
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16
Company:
Fair Film more

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6 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
Wonderful soundtrack but the movie is not up to scratch., 15 February 2005
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Author: dbdumonteil

The precedent user was right:the score by Ennio Morricone -who remains one of the greatest of all- is tuneful ,splendid,perfect.It's when you deal with the movie that things go wrong..

First of all,Romy Schneider -an actress I like very much though- is miscast as an Italian woman.In her diary published in the late eighties the actress wrote:"the filming had only begun when I had to strip naked for a love scene (...)I was interested in playing a very different character(...)Bevilacqua,the scriptwriter had not the slightest idea of what a movie was .We were completely lost,all of us ,even Ugo Tognazzi." The main problem,IMHO,is that the film would like to be realistic -a depiction of the factories strikes in Italy- and it has also intellectual pretensions.Sometimes it makes me think of Pasolini's "teorema"(1968),Romy Schneider's "Califfa" replacing the Terence Stamp's angel.The scenes between Tognazzi and Schneider seem unreal.

It is a dated movie ,it captures the end of the sixties zeitgeist,all content and no form. But once again,the score is worth the price of admission.

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