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ALFREDO ALFREDO
Direction: Pietro Germi Script: Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Tullio Pinelli, Pietro Germi Screenplay: Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Tullio Pinelli, Pietro Germi Photography: Ajace Parolin (in Technicolor) Editing: Sergio Montanari Music: Carlo Rustichelli Actors : Dustin Hoffman, Stefania Sandrelli, Carla Gravina, Saro Urzi, Duilio del Prete, Luigi Baghetti, Renzo Marignano, Danika La Loggia, Clara Colosimo, Vincenzo Cannavale, Daniele Patella, Elisabetta Vito, Emanuela Fallini, Jean Dumontet. Producer: Francoriz Production Paris, R.P.A. Rizzoli (Rome) Year: 1972 Length: 106 min. (2900 m.) PLOT The Alfredo of the film title is the clerk Alfredo Sbisà who is in love with the beautiful pharmacist Mariarosa whom he first manages to get to know and then to marry with the help of a friend. After the wedding Mariarosa turns out to be a very jealous woman, to the point that she restricts her husband’s liberty so much that he loses the affection of his father and friend. Not only: because Mariarosa wants to have a child Alfredo is subjected to a sexual tour de force that, after some time, bears fruit. During the pregnancy, with the complicity of her parents, Mariarosa banishes her husband to the cellar. But it is an ill wind that blows nobody good: Alfredo manages to regain his lost liberty. When his wife’s condition is revealed as a hysterical pregnancy, he takes a lover and, revealing himself as a supporter of divorce, he separates from Mariarosa, only to find himself faced once more with the dilemma of having to settle down, this time with his lover who wants to marry him. Andrea Rizzoli, the producer, was awarded the David Donatello (joint first) 1972/73 for best production.
What makes it a Marche film: The internal and external shooting took place in the old town of Ascoli Piceno (Piazza del Popolo, Lucioni the barber’s shop in Via Trieste) as well as in the National Park of Monti Sibillini.Mr. Fantacci of Ascoli Piceno, who had already worked as set designer on Germi’s “Serafino”, collaborated on this film too. The film was shot with the working title “Until divorce do you part” and about 2000 citizens of Ascoli took part as extras.Dustin Hoffman, the lead in the film, defined Ascoli as “a very beautiful city” in an interview given in the autumn of 1972. The premiere of the film was held in Ascoli on the 21st October, 1972. Bibliography: |
