Vanina Vanini (1961) aka The Betrayer
Rating: 6.3
Runtime: 109 min
Language: Italian (no subs)
Country: Italy
Color: Color
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Director: Roberto Rossellini
Cast:
Sandra Milo ... Vanina Vanini
Laurent Terzieff ... Pietro Missirilli
Martine Carol ... Contessa Vitelleschi
Paolo Stoppa ... Asdrubale Vanini
Isabelle Corey ... Clelia
Antonio Pierfederici ... Livio Savelli
Olimpia Cavalli ... La femme de chambre
Nerio Bernardi ... Cardinal Savelli
Mimmo Poli ... Il boia
Description: When I was a child ,I saw the trailer: it was the story of a princess in love with a shepherd in my child's mind.And of course I did not know who Rossellini was.
Based on a short story by Stendhal,this is probably the most overlooked of all Rossellini's works .Laurent Terzieff is a very gifted actor: although the most "Nouvelle Vague" of all the thespians of the era (late fifties/early sixties),he was never hired by Godard and his clique and found his best parts with "old" brilliant directors (Marcel Carné,Henri-Georges Clouzot,Claude Autant-Lara)
"Vanina Vanini" opens in 1823, during the conclave of the College of Cardinals in Rome to pick a successor to Pope Pius VII. It's the story of the love affair of a bored, spoiled young Roman princess, Vanina Vanini (Sandra Milo), and a dedicated young patriot, Pietro Missirilli (Laurent Terzieff), who has come to Rome to assassinate a traitor to his brotherhood of Free Masons, here identified with the fight against papal oppression and the campaign for a united Italy.
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