D'Annunzio (film)
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| Directed by | Sergio Nasca |
| Written by | Sergio Nasca Piero Chiara |
| Starring | Robert Powell, Stefania Sandrelli |
| Cinematography | Romano Albani |
| Edited by | Nino Baragli |
| Music by | Sergio Sandrelli |
Release date | 1985 |
Running time | 113 min |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
D'Annunzio (internationally released as D'Annunzio and I and Love Sin) is a 1985 Italian biographical film directed by Sergio Nasca.[1]
Plot
In 1887 the young Gabriele d' Annunzio has just moved to Rome from his ancestral home of Pescara in Abruzzo. The environment purely backward and filled with ignorant people does not attract more he, so d'Annunzio, who now has a new love: Elvira "Barbara" Leoni, can breathe the air of freedom and culture in decline in the Capital, which is now undergoing new changes under the reign of Umberto I. Even the young poet breathes the air of sad democracy who , according to him and many other intellectuals, is destroying the era of positivism and classicism that has always intoxicated the imagination of the aesthetes and the nobles of that time. The political problems are becoming more frequent and the noble principles of Rome, so as not to be open to new pseud-futuristic age that is emerging, they choose to cling strongly to anything that has characterized the Italian culture in past centuries. Now the nobles live only for the artists and for the Pope. Gabriele d' Annunzio decides to spend in Rome this climate madly loving his Barbara, almost as sad to let off steam in the period that he is experiencing. Now is the 1888, d'Annunzio is encountered in a long time with his friend of Pescara Francesco Paolo Michetti, which together with Francesco Paolo Tosti helped him in adolescence with the publication of his first elegiac poems extolling and condemned at the same time popular culture of Abruzzo of those times.
Powerfully influenced by this climate of decadence, d'Annunzio decides to return to Pescara to compose his first great novel. However, he will be extremely presumptuous in this position and throws it down on paper an infinite amount of sketches, wanting to try to reproduce in his prose great themes and styles insurmountable as those epic Homer ( Iliad and Odyssey) or extremely descriptive and exuberant as those of Cervantes and Rabelais (authors of the Don Quixote and Gargantua and Pantagruel). In vain d'Annunzio unable to formulate a well-defined plot, and so, since he started a few years ago to work for daily newspapers Rome, he decides to make use of some shocking news and filled with gossip and attention to create his novel The Pleasure (Il Piacere). Closed him as in a cloistered convent in his villa in Francavilla al Mare, d'Annunzio delivers his novel, a masterpiece that will become not so much for the development of the plot simple love, but for the most careful underscore decadent era that all are living and especially for the many quotations from works of art to which they are clinging precisely all the nobles of Italy. Her designs are Emile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Stendhal, William Shakespeare, Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach.
The novel, published by Milanese publisher Treves has a great success and so d'Annunzio returnes to Rome and and he makes peace with Barbara, the inspiration for the female protagonist of the novel ( the femme fatale), begins to study other two authors for the composition of his second novel, Giovanni Episcopo (1891). The models will be dramatic are now Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. But he seems that his relationship with Barbara Leoni is destroying, as d'Annunzio think only to find several "muse" for his works. He can not do anything: d'Annunzio is completely integrated in the circle of writers of his era. He will be the representative poet of the "decadence period" with Giovanni Pascoli.
Cast
- Robert Powell : Gabriele D'Annunzio
- Stefania Sandrelli : Elvira Fraternali Leoni, detta Barbara
- Laurent Terzieff : Michetti
- Florence Guérin : Clo Albrini
- Sonia Petrovna : Maria Cruyllas di Gravina - prima moglie
- Teresa Ann Savoy : Maria di Gallese
- Fiorenza Marchegiani : Olga Ossani
- Paolo Bonacelli : Ercole Leoni
- Roberto Alpi : Edoardo Scarfoglio
- Cesare Barbetti : De Bosis
- Eva Grimaldi : Viola
References
- ^ Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 2000. ISBN 8877424230.
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External links
- D'Annunzio at IMDb
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