| The Escape | |
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| Directed by | Paolo Spinola |
| Written by | Sergio Amidei Piero Bellanova |
| Starring | Giovanna Ralli Anouk Aimée Paul Guers Enrico Maria Salerno |
| Cinematography | Marcello Gatti Armando Nannuzzi |
| Edited by | Nino Baragli |
| Music by | Piero Piccioni |
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| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
La fuga, also known as The Escape, is a 1965 Italian drama film directed by Paolo Spinola. For this film Giovanna Ralli was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Actress. [1]
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The film marked the directorial debut of Paolo Spinola; for the lead role, he chose Giovanna Ralli, whom he had met in 1953 on the set of It Happened in the Park . [2] Spinola described the film as "the analysis of a marital relationship based entirely on a psychoanalytic fabric of a Freudian type", and the screenplay was co-written with psychoanalyst Piero Bellanova. [2]
The film received a domestic theatrical release in early 1965. [2] It was picked up by 20th Century Fox for international distribution, and released in the United States, where it premiered in New York in March 1966 as The Escape. [2] Fox released it also in France, Mexico, and West Germany. [2]
Italian film historian Roberto Curti described the film as "one of the finest feature film debuts of the decade", "surprisingly elegant" and with an "extraordinary visual style". [2] According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $700,000 in rentals to break even and made $230,000, meaning it made a loss. [3]
