''Last Feelings'' () is a 1978

melodrama film In film studies and criticism, melodrama may variously refer to a genre, mode, style or sensibility characterized by its emphasis on intense and exaggerated emotions and heightened dramatic situations. There is no fixed definition of the term an ...

written and directed by

Ruggero Deodato Ruggero Deodato (; 7 May 1939 – 29 December 2022) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. His career spanned a wide-range of genres including Sword-and-sandal, peplum, Comedy film, comedy, Drama (film and television), drama, P ...

Plot

Diego Micheli is a troubled teenage runaway who tries to turn his life around by joining a

swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...

team and competing in national tryouts and champion races. After coming to the attention of Marco, a swimming instructor, and falling in love with Marco's sister Claudia, he is diagnosed with a terminal

brain tumor A brain tumor (sometimes referred to as brain cancer) occurs when a group of cells within the Human brain, brain turn cancerous and grow out of control, creating a mass. There are two main types of tumors: malignant (cancerous) tumors and benign ...

and is determined to take part in the European Swimming Championships in Holland before it can kill him.

Cast

* Carlo Lupo as Diego Micheli * Vittoria Galeazzi as Claudia *

Fiorenzo Fiorentini Fiorenzo Fiorentini (10 April 1920 – 27 March 2003) was an Italian actor, author, composer, screenwriter and radio personality. Life and career Born in Rome, Fiorentini began his career as an author and radio actor, creating many successful ...

as Anselmo *

Jacques Sernas Jokūbas Bernardas Šernas (30 July 1925 – 3 July 2015), commonly known as Jacques Sernas and sometimes credited as Jack Sernas, was a Lithuanian-born French actor with an international film career. Biography He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, ...

as The Sports Director *

Angela Goodwin Angela Goodwin (born Angela Bucci; 1 August 1925 – 25 March 2016) was an Italian stage, film and television actress. Life and career Born in Rome, Italy, Goodwin was the daughter of an Italian-American father, and spent her youth in the US w ...

as Maria Micheli, Diego's Mother *

Luigi Diberti Luigi Diberti (born 29 September 1939) is an Italian actor and dubber. After graduating from the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome, he first appeared in small theater roles before having his breakout in 1968 with Luca Ronconi's ''L'Orl ...

as Marco,

instructor * Emilio Delle Piane as The Sports Doctor *

Gino Pagnani Gino Pagnani (born Luigi Pagnani Fusconi; 31 July 1927 – 10 April 2010) was an Italian actor and voice actor. He appeared in more than fifty films from 1968 to 1991. Filmography References External links * 1927 births 2010 deaths ...

as Giovanni * Deddi Savagnone as The School Teacher *

Gianni Solaro Gianni Solaro (born Gianni Lorenzon, 11 August 1926 – 12 August 2006) was an Italian film and television actor. Life and career Born in Rome, Solaro was a character actor in the Italian film industry for about twenty years, between the late 19 ...

as The Hospital Doctor * Roberto Pangaro as himself

References

External links

* Italian drama films 1978 drama films 1978 films Films directed by Ruggero Deodato Swimming films 1970s Italian films Films scored by Ubaldo Continiello {{1970s-drama-film-stub