Love in the City (1953 film)

Love in the City (Italian: L'amore in città) is a 1953 Italian anthology film composed of six segments, each with its own writer or director. The anthology consists of the following episodes:

Love in the City
Theatrical release poster
Directed byFederico Fellini
Michelangelo Antonioni
Alberto Lattuada
Carlo Lizzani
Francesco Maselli
Dino Risi
Cesare Zavattini
Written by
Produced byMarco Ferreri
Riccardo Ghione
Starring
  • Rita Josa
  • Rosanna Carta
  • Enrico Pelliccia
CinematographyGianni Di Venanzo
Edited byEraldo Da Roma
Music byMario Nascimbene
Distributed byIFE Releasing Corporation
Release date
26 November 1953 (Italy)
Running time
105 minutes

Synopsis

Under the aegis of Cesare Zavattini, precursor and theoretician of neorealism, the various authors of this film with sketches try to reconstitute according to the testimonies of the protagonists themselves various aspects of love in the city, most often tragic: young women impregnated and immediately abandoned, young prostitutes, a young unemployed mother who has to abandon her child in the middle of the street, a young girl from a family of nine children and poor parents, ready to marry any man, even the sick, to flee misery... A bit of the sad observation of the pre-abortion period of the 1950s? And even the sexual frustration of ordinary men eager to insistently detail pretty women on the street.

With this darkness, we are the opposite of Italian comedy sketch films like "The Monsters", "The Dolls" or "Boccaccio 70".

The different films are characteristic of the obsessions and the artistic way of the different authors at the time.

Attempted suicide

Young women who have tried to commit suicide for love tell their stories in front of Michelangelo Antonioni's camera placed in front of a white sheet.

A marriage agency

Federico Fellini imagines a journalist who investigates a marriage agency by pretending to be a friend of a wealthy patient who wants to get married.

The Italians turn around

Report by Alberto Lattuada on the reactions of men to the passage of pretty women.

Catherine's Story

An investigation reconstructed by Francesco Maselli and Cesare Zavattini on a woman forced to abandon her child and who does everything to find him.

The Saturday Night Ball

Dino Risi films with tenderness and irony an evening at the ball.

The love we pay

A documentary on Roman prostitutes filmed by Carlo Lizzani. The film was censored and deleted in retail releases.

Cast
Paid Love
Attempted Suicide
  • Rita Josa
  • Rosanna Carta
  • Enrico Pelliccia
  • Donatella Marrosu
  • Paolo Pacetti
  • Nella Bertuccioni
  • Lilia Nardi
  • Lena Rossi
  • Maria Nobili
Paradise for Three Hours
Marriage Agency
  • Antonio Cifariello as Giornalista
  • Livia Venturini
  • Maresa Gallo
  • Angela Pierro
  • Rita Andreana
  • Lia Natali
Story of Caterina
  • Caterina Rigoglioso
Italians Stare

References
  1. "Love in the City". IMDb. Retrieved 28 April 2012.


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