Arturo's Island (film)
- Vanni de Maigret: Arturo
- Kay Meersman: Nunziata
- Reginald Kernan: Hermann
- Gabriella Giorgelli: Silvana Di Carli
- Luigi Giuliani: Tonino Stella
Island of forbidden love (Original Title: L' isola di Arturo ) is an Italian director Damiano Damiani drama from 1962 with Vanni de Maigret in the lead role on a novel by Elsa Morante.
Action
The 17 -year-old Arturo lives on a small island in the Gulf of Naples. Since his mother died, he spends most of his time to row alone with his boat out to sea. His father William worked on the mainland, to visit him rarely and is emotionally restrained, what Arturo does not stop to love him madly. One day, his father brings the very young Nunziata, whom he had married earlier on the mainland. Nevertheless, Wilhelm adopted soon back to the mainland.
Arturo does not like the new constellation and he stays away from the friendly Nunziata. Only when he learns that she is pregnant, he begins to care about them and takes over his father's role. He falls in love with her, but although she seems to return his feelings, she rejects him, completely committed to their role as wife of the father. Disappointed with the sleeping Arturo experienced Silvana, who tried to seduce him for some time. When his father comes back to the island, he cares neither for his young wife nor the child, but only for the arrest of Tonino, who came to the island with him and was brought there in jail. Arturo learns that the two men since the war have a relationship, and experienced his father in utter despair, unable to clarify the situation. Arturo decides to go and leaves for the first time the island.
Background
Island of forbidden love is Damiano Damiani's third film and his first on a novel. Damiani was known to the couple Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia since the 50s, and turned in 1964 with " La noia " a movie based on a novel by Alberto Moravia. Time of the film to the creation time of the novel 1957 is located and plays on the island of Procida in the Gulf of Naples. As in his first film innocence in cross-examination, Damiano Damiani worked on the script with Cesare Zavattini together. Their implementation of the novel by Elsa Morante, which was considered accurate observer of the Italian reality after the war, still shows a significant close to the style of neo-realism.
Criticism
The lexicon of the International film keeps the drama for a "sensitive study of a psychosexual maturation, set in evocative images. "
Awards
Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián in 1962
- Award ( Golden Shell ) for best film