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Red Desert is a 1964 French and Italian drama and romance film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Tonino Guerra. Produced by Tonino Cervi and Angelo Rizzoli, it stars Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Xenia Valderi, and Rita Renoir, with cinematography by Carlo Di Palma and a score by Giovanni Fusco. Its Italian title is Il deserto rosso, and it is set in Italy.
The film runs 117 minutes, was edited by Eraldo Da Roma, and received the Golden Lion. Attendance is recorded at 508,819.
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7.3In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
Cast
- Monica Vitti as Giuliana
- Richard Harris as Corrado Zeller
- Carlo Chionetti as Ugo
- Xenia Valderi as Linda
- Rita Renoir as Emilia
- Lili Rheims as Telescope Operator's Wife
Themes
- adultery
- depression
- factory
- husband wife relationship
- italy
- fog
- loneliness
- mother son relationship
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Ratings
IMDb
7.4/10
18,138 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
94%
- Year
- 1964
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- 7 wins & 4 nominations
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Key facts
- Italian
- Il deserto rosso
- Directed by
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Written by
- Michelangelo Antonioni Tonino Guerra
- Produced by
- Antonio Cervi
- Starring
- Monica Vitti Richard Harris Carlo Chionetti Xenia Valderi Rita Renoir Aldo Grotti
- Cinematography
- Carlo Di Palma
- Edited by
- Eraldo Da Roma
- Music by
- Giovanni Fusco Vittorio Gelmetti
- Production companies
- Film Duemila Francoriz Distribution
- Distributed by
- Cineriz (Italy) Carlotta Films (France)
- Release dates
- 7 September 1964 ( 1964-09-07 ) ( Venice ) 29 October 1964 ( 1964-10-29 ) (Italy and France)
- Running time
- 120 minutes
- Countries
- Italy France
- Language
- Italian
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Award
- Golden Lion
- Genre
- romance film
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Original language
- Italian
- Director
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Screenwriter
- Tonino Guerra
- Cast member
- Bruno Scipioni
- Composer
- Giovanni Fusco
- Producer
- Angelo Rizzoli
- Cinematographer
- Carlo Di Palma
- Narrative location
- Italy
- Duration
- 117
- FilmAffinity ID
- 144758
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Deserto rosso 3.jpg
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- publication date
- 1965-03-31
- film editor
- Eraldo Da Roma
- title
- Il deserto rosso
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 94%
- attendance
- 240250
- Commons category
- Deserto rosso
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Encyclopedic overview
Red Desert (Italian: Il deserto rosso) is a 1964 psychological drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, written by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra, and starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris. Set in Northern Italy, the story follows a troubled woman who is unable to adapt to her environment after an automobile accident. This was Antonioni's first color film.
This was the last in a series of four films he made with Vitti between 1959 and 1964, preceded by L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962). Red Desert was awarded the Golden Lion at the 25th Venice International Film Festival in 1964. It has received acclaim from critics.
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