The Subversives
1967 Italian film
- 1967 (1967)
I sovversivi (internationally released as The Subversives) is a 1967 Italian drama film. It is the first solo film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, without Valentino Orsini.[1]
It was entered into the 32° Venice Film Festival.[2]
Plot
The film combines actual footage of Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti's funeral with the intermingled stories of four people affected by his death: Ettore, a Venezuelan radical who abandons the wealthy Italian woman he loves to go back to his country and help his cause; Ludovico, an ailing filmmaker who finds out that art alone is not enough; Giulia, a woman who embarks upon a lesbian affair with a former mistress of her husband; and Ermanno, a philosophy graduate who breaks up with his past.
Cast
- Giulio Brogi: Ettore
- Pier Paolo Capponi: Muzio
- Lucio Dalla: Ermanno
- Fabienne Fabre: Giovanna
- Ferruccio De Ceresa: Ludovico
- Maria Cumani Quasimodo: Ludovico's mother
- José Torres: Rafael
- Feodor Chaliapin
- Vittorio Duse
References
External links
- The Subversives at IMDb
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Films directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
- A Man for Burning (1962)
- Outlaws of Love (1963)
- The Subversives (1967)
- Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969)
- St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972)
- Allonsanfàn (1974)
- Padre padrone (1977)
- The Meadow (1979)
- The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
- Kaos (1984)
- Good Morning, Babylon (1987)
- The Sun Also Shines at Night (1990)
- Fiorile (1993)
- The Elective Affinities (1996)
- You Laugh (1998)
- Resurrezione (2001)
- Luisa Sanfelice (2004)
- The Lark Farm (2007)
- Caesar Must Die (2012)
- Wondrous Boccaccio (2015)
- Rainbow: A Private Affair (2017)
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