''Tragic Hunt'' () is a 1947 Italian
drama film
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directed by
Giuseppe De Santis and starring
Vivi Gioi,
Andrea Checchi and
Carla Del Poggio. It was part of the wave of postwar
neorealist films. It was one of two produced by the
ANPI movement along with ''
The Sun Still Rises'' from the previous year.
Future filmmakers
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni ( ; ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents", ''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and '' ...
and
Carlo Lizzani co-wrote the script. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...
Carlo Egidi.
Plot
After the
Second World War
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, in
Emilia-Romagna
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, Italy, a cooperative has been founded by peasants. War has destroyed the country. A group of bandits, with former Nazi-collaborator Daniela, known as '
Lili Marlene' (Vivi Gioi), holds up the truck where the money of the cooperative is travelling. All the peasants search for the thieves in a tragic hunt.
Cast
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Vivi Gioi as Daniela 'Lili Marlene'
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Andrea Checchi as Alberto
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Carla Del Poggio as Giovanna
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Massimo Girotti
Massimo Girotti (18 May 1918 – 5 January 2003) was an Italian film actor whose career spanned seven decades.
Biography
Born in Mogliano, in the province of Macerata, Girotti developed his athletic physique by swimming and playing polo. While ...
as Michele
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Vittorio Duse as Giuseppe
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Checco Rissone as Mimì
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Umberto Sacripante as The lame man
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Folco Lulli as A farmer
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Michele Riccardini as The
maresciallo
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Eugenia Grandi as Sultana
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Piero Lulli
Piero Lulli (1 February 1923 – 23 June 1991) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 111 films between 1942 and 1977. He was the younger brother of actor Folco Lulli.
Selected filmography
* '' A Pilot Returns'' (1942) - De Santis
* '' ...
as The driver
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Ermanno Randi as Andrea
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Enrico Tacchetti as The accountant
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Carlo Lizzani as The veteran holding a speech
Awards
It won two
Nastro d'Argento
The (plural: ''Nastri d'Argento''; English: Silver Ribbon) is an Italian film award, held since 1946 by the ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani'' (Italian National Union of Film Journalists). Awards are given annually in ...
as Best Director and Best Supporting Actress (
Vivi Gioi).
External links
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1947 films
Films set in Italy
1940s Italian-language films
Italian black-and-white films
1947 drama films
Films about social realism
Films directed by Giuseppe De Santis
Films with screenplays by Cesare Zavattini
Italian drama films
1947 directorial debut films
1940s Italian films
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