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Bookmark this pageAllonsanfan (1974)
Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
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From Time Out Film Guide
A film with an even greater thrust of excitement than the Tavianis' subsequent Padre Padrone. Mastroianni, at his most convincingly dissolute, plays a spineless aristocrat who wanders through Italy in 1816 trying to rub out his past association with a radical group, without daring to tell them he's lost their faith in Napoleonic revolution. The tangled and sumptuously melodramatic plot allows the Tavianis to lay into left-wing idealism and gullibility without departing from their own commitment for a second. Ennio Morricone's score tops a rousing and passionate entertainment.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Producer: Giuliani G De Negri
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Lea Massari, Mimsy Farmer, Laura Betti, Bruno Cirino full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 111 mins
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