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Eye Filmmuseum seen across the river IJ © Marcus Koppen

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campaign image Alberto Lattuada: Meester naast Fellini

still from Anna (Alberto Lattuada, IT/FR 1951)

still Anna (Alberto Lattuada, IT/FR 1951)

still from Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo (Alberto Lattuada, IT 1947)

still Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo (Alberto Lattuada, IT 1947)

still from Luci del varietà (Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada, IT 1950)

still Luci del varietà (Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada, IT 1950)

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What seems like a melodrama is in fact a subtle exploration of the psyche of a woman going her own way: Anna, with a starring role for Silvana Mangano, is Alberto Lattuada’s sophisticated interpretation of a love story in the style of a film noir.

Sometimes, Alberto Lattuada chose melodrama as a way of weaving a modern message through his films. In <em>Anna</em>, Silvana Mangano plays a woman who wants to become a nun. Shortly before her investiture – she is working as a nurse in a hospital – her former lover Andrea (Raf Vallone) is brought in, seriously injured.

Anna

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Without the human quality of empathy, society degenerates into a jungle where only the strong survive – this is the message of Albert Lattuada’s love story about a young Italian woman and a black American in racist post-war Italy.

Livorno in the wake of WWII: on the ruins of defeated fascism, the inhabitants falteringly try to pick up their lives. That tolerance is still not their strongest suit is demonstrated when black American soldier Jerry (John Kiztmiller) falls in love with a young Italian woman Angela (Carla de Poggio). Racism makes their love virtually impossible.

<p>He was affiliated to the neorealism movement, but at the same time was able to mix his polished style with a preference for genre and popular stories. He was open to influences from Hollywood genres, particularly the thriller and melodrama.</p>

Alberto Lattuada

This seldom-screened film from Albert Lattuada’s neo-realist period is an adaptation of Gabriele d’Annunzio’s novella of the same title. A simple clerk falls under the spell of a dissipated adventurer and commits a murder. The first of four Lattuada films on which Federico Fellini was co-screenwriter.

Giovanni Episcopo leads a modest existence working in an office and living in an equally modest bedsit. One day, his colleagues take him to a café and introduce him to adventurer and con-man Giulio Wanzer.

Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo

Fellini had already written the scripts for three films by Alberto Lattuada; now the Milanese director let him direct the actors: Fellini directs Giulietta Masina and Carla del Poggio in this bittersweet story – with comic overtones – about the life of a travelling troupe of Italian variety artistes.

It might seem difficult to believe, but without Alberto Lattuada (1914-2005), Federico Fellini may never have become a director. It was Lattuada – subject of a retrospective at the Cannes film festival this year – who encouraged Fellini to jump into the co-director’s chair. Fellini himself says he would never have thought of this, as he was so successful as a screenwriter.

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Alberto Lattuada / IT, 1947 / 90 min.

Without the human quality of empathy, society degenerates into a jungle where only the strong survive – this is the message of Albert Lattuada’s love story about a young Italian woman and a black American in racist post-war Italy.

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