Subject: A pop artist, Leonardo Ferri, feels that
hectic town-life is no longer a source of inspiration to him and he
decides to move to the country. His new house, which was once the home
of a nymphomaniac who was murdered during the war at the age of seventeen
only makes him even more nervous.
He conjures up wild rows with his fiancée Flavia, and even dreams
of killing her. Locked up in a luxurious psychiatric clinic with his
canvasses and his brushes, he is submitted to the stimuli of erotic
magazines.
He the begins to execute tiny painting which his fiancée gets
hold of in order to sell them at low prices and make money at the sick
man’s expence.
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1968
Un tranquillo posto di campagna
I nternational title: a quiet place in the country (1971)
Director: Elio Petri
Story by: Tonino Guerra, Elio Petri
Screenplay by: Elio Petri, Luciano Vincenzoni
Assistant Director: Mario Chiari
Director of Photography: Luigi Kuveiller(technicolor, panoramique)
Cameraman: Ubaldo Terzano
Art Director: Sergio Canevari
Assistant Art Director: Amedeo Fago
Costume Designer: Franco Carretti
Costume Designer for Vanessa Redgrave: Giulio Coltellacci
Sound: Mario Bramonti
Editing: Ruggero Mastroianni
Music by: Ennio Morricone (played by the improvisation group “Nuova
Consonanza”, sung by Edda Dell’Orso).
Production: Alberto Grimaldi for P.E.A (Rome), les
Productions Artistes Associes (Paris)
Production Manager: Gino Milozza.
Cast: Franco Nero (Leonardo Ferri), Vanessa Redgrave (Flavia) Georges
Geret ( Attilio),Gabriella Grimaldi ( Wanda) Madeleine Damien (Wanda’s
Mother) Rita Calderoni (Egle), Renato Menegatto (Egle’s friend),
David Mansell (the Medium) John Francis Lane (the Nurse), Valerio Ruggeri,
Arnaldo Momo, Costantino De Luca, Marino Biagiola, Piero De Francesci,
Camillo Bensenzon, Renato Lupi, Umberto Di Grazia, Giuseppe Bello, Bruna
Simionato, Giulia Menin, Snoopy, the Dog.
Lenght: 105 minutes.
The
paintings of Leonardo Ferri (Franco Nero) are by Jim Dine.