Lettera aperta a un giornale della sera

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Lettera aperta a un giornale della sera
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Directed by Francesco Maselli
Written byFrancesco Maselli
Produced by Franco Cristaldi
CinematographyGerardo Patrizi
Edited byRolando Salvatori
Music by Giovanna Marini
Production
companies
  • Ital-Noleggio Cinematografico
  • Vides Cinematografica
Distributed byItal-Noleggio Cinematografico
Release date
  • March 1970 (1970-03) [1]
Running time
121 minutes [2]
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Lettera aperta a un giornale della sera (English titles Open Letter to an Evening Daily and Open Letter to the Evening News) is a 1970 Italian drama film written and directed by Francesco Maselli. [3] [4] The film follows the crisis of a group of Communist intellectuals against the background of the Vietnam War.

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Cast

Production and release

Lettera aperta a un giornale della sera was shot on 16 mm film [5] in 1968 and 1969 and released in 1970. [6]

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References

  1. Miccichè, Lino (1998). Opaque screens: Italian cinema of the 1980s. Marsilio. p. 376.
  2. Open Letter to the Evening News (DVD). No Shame. 2006.
  3. Halligan, Benjamin (2016). Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film. Berghahn Books. p. 177. ISBN   9781785331107.
  4. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith; James Hay; Gianni Volpi (1996). The companion to Italian cinema. London: Cassell, British Film Institute. p. 78.
  5. Moliterno, Gino (2020). Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 304.
  6. Halligan, Benjamin (2016). Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film. Berghahn Books. p. 177. ISBN   9781785331107.