Sunday in August

The Italian film A Sunday in August (Original Title: Domenica d' agosto ) was born in 1950 and depicts a Sunday, the Roman population spends on the beach of Ostia. As an ensemble film, he weaves the experiences of several main characters to the portrait of a social class. In one of his earlier film appearances Marcello Mastroianni plays a small role as a bona fide, thoroughly honest man of the people.

Action

On a hot Sunday in August, it attracts the inhabitants of Rome to the sea. In crowded buses, Fährrädern, in rickety old and newer cars they are pushing on the road to Ostia, to the beach. Some of these people isolated the story from the anonymous crowd.

Luciana wants the rather poor conditions in which they lived escape. She separates from her unemployed fiance Roberto and gets into the car of her new admirer. This leads them into a noble Gesellschafskreise, but where a baron stalking her lewd, and she runs away. A widower is his little daughter into a Catholic boarding school, because the woman with whom he lives, wants to have more time with him alone. But He is the hollowness of his relationship clear when he meets a nice, single mother on the beach. He leaves his partner and gets the Small back from boarding school. The young Marcella came with her parents to Ostia. Disgusted by the ordinary boys at the public beach, she sneaks under the fence through to the beach section of a distinguished club. There she meets the boy Enrico, with whom she talks extra politely and upscale conversation leads. Both conceal each other, that they belong to the working class. They row out to sea together, lose control of their catamaran and come back very late. Not all of these fates play on the beach from: The maid Rosetta, engaged with the traffic police Ercole, is pregnant, which is why you have canceled the reigns. For the period until marriage she needs an accommodation, because Ercole must stay unmarried than in the barracks. Roberto, the abandoned fiancée Luciana, has acquired during her absence on a burglary to get money. When she returns from Ostia, she is forced to watch as he is taken away by the police. For Marcella discovered upon arrival in their residential district that also lives there, Enrico; for falling in their state no longer plays a role.

Reviews

The Corriere della Sera wrote in 1950: " The best part of the film is the one in which the action acts spontaneously, almost as if it had been improvised in front of the camera, without rehearsals. It does not matter that Emmer it remains true to the style and the type of documentary. On the other hand is important that he and the screenwriter Amidei repeatedly succeeded unusual for today's film expressiveness. The movie comes to credit, for such a new and difficult history not experienced actor, but good, unknown performers are used to some extent. " In the obituary of Emmer, 2009 Guardian of the strip was a" humble and funny, of passion fulfilled without to be vulgar " described. He is said to have been found in Europe and outside well received. The lexicon of the International film looks differentiated: " The first feature film except Emmers reveals talent for working with actors exact observation and attention to detail and the poetry of the everyday. The individual episodes - partly realistic, partly applied gently satirical - artistically are not equal and not always logically intertwined. "

1950 in film Luciano Emmer Screenplay Cesare Zavattini Franco Brusati Sergio Amidei Film score Roman Vlad Ostia (Rome)
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