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Cronaca di un amore

Directed by	Michelangelo Antonioni
Produced by	Stefano Caretta Franco Villani
Written by	Michelangelo Antonioni (also story) Daniele D'Anza Silvio Giovannetti Francesco Maselli Piero Tellini
Starring	Lucia Bosè (as Paola Molon) Massimo Girotti (as Guido) Ferdinando Sarmi (as Enrico Fontana) Gino Rossi (as detective Carloni) Marika Rowsky Rosi Mirafiore Rubi D'Alma Franco Fabrizi
Music by	Giovanni Fusco
Cinematography	Enzo Serafin
Editing by	Eraldo Da Roma
Distributed by	Fincine
Release date(s)	1950
Running time	98 min
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Cronaca di un amore (released as Chronicle of a Love in the UK, and Story of a Love Affair in the USA) is a 1950 Italian black-and-white drama film and the first full length feature film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. It stars Lucia Bosé, then 19-year old Miss Italy 1947 and a flame of Antonioni of that time. Despite some neorealist background, the film was not fully compliant with the contemporary Italian neorealist style both in its story and image, featuring upper-class characters portrayed by professional actors. Ferdinando Sarmi was, however, a fashion designer rather than a professional actor. In Cronaca di un amore, the camera pans the same street corner in Ferrara, the director's native city, that appears in Antonioni's Par-delà les nuages 45 years later.

Synopsis

The core of the story is apparently offered by the protagonists' feelings of guilt and responsibility for two ambiguous deaths. Enrico Fontana (Ferdinando Sarmi), wealthy Milan industrialist and jealous husband, becomes interested in his young and beautiful wife's shady past and hires a detective. At the same time his wife, Paola Molon (Lucia Bosè), native of Ferrara, meets her former lover Guido (Massimo Girotti), who tries to sell cars to Enrico, and partly due to the ongoing investigation reunites with him again in an attempt to cover a mysterious death of Giovanna, former fiancee of Guido and school friend of Paola, fallen into an open lift shaft in Ferrara many years before. As a result, they fall in love again. Paola urges Guido to kill Enrico, and her lover, armed with a gun, waits for Enrico's car on a roadside. However, approaching the ambush, Enrico gets in a deadly car accident. After all, Guido leaves Paola again and departs from Milan.

Cast

Lucia Bosè as Paola Molon
Massimo Girotti as Guido
Ferdinando Sarmi as Enrico Fontana
Gino Rossi as detective Carloni
Marika Rowsky as Joy (model)
Rosi Mirafiore as barmaid
Rubi D'Alma as a friend of Paola
Anita Farra
Carlo Gazzabini
Nardo Rimediotti
Renato Burrini
Vittorio Manfrino
Vittoria Mondello as Matilde
Franco Fabrizi as fashion show presentator
Gino Cervi

External links

Venturi, Lauro (1951). Notes on Five Italian Films. Hollywood Quarterly 5.4, pp. 389–400
Johnston, Ian (2006). “We're not happy and we never will be”. Bright Lights Film Journal 53.
Antonioni, Michelangelo (1996). The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema. Ed. by M. Cottino-Jones, C. Di Carlo, G. Tinazzi. N.Y.: Marsilio. ISBN 1568860161
Cronaca di un amore at the Internet Movie Database
Cronaca di un amore at Allmovie‹The template Amg movie is being considered for deletion.›

v • d • e Films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

1950s	Cronaca di un amore (1950) • I vinti (1952) • La signora senza camelie (1953) • Le amiche (1955) • Il grido (1957)

1960s	L'avventura (1960) • La notte (1961) • L'eclisse (1962) • Red Desert (1964) • Blowup (1966)

1970s	Zabriskie Point (1970) • Chung Kuo, Cina (1972) • The Passenger (1975)

1980s	Il mistero di Oberwald (1981) • Identificazione di una donna (1982)

1990s	Beyond the Clouds (1995)

Shorts	Tentato suicido (1953) • Il provino (1965) • Il filo pericoloso delle cose (2004)

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