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Wild Love

6.1 81 mins Comedy   1955
Films Metzger et Woog   Alessandro Iacovoni Produzione Cinematografica  
Director(s): Mauro Bolognini

Despite of (or perhaps because of ) its sparse production values and unpretentiousness, the Italian Gli Innamorati was feted at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. The bulk of the story takes place in a single Roman neighborhood. In the manner of the 1925 German classic A Joyless Street, director Mauro Bolognini studies the hopes, dreams, successes and failures of the neighborhood's various and sundry denizens. No one subplot dominates the proceedings, though a bit of extra time is afforded the story of a fickle seamstress and her seemingly meek-and-mild boyfriend. The cast is dotted with such reassuringly familiar faces as Nino Manfredi and Gino Cervi. Released in the US as Wild Love, Gli Innamorati was instrumental in bringing international fame to director Bolognini, whose career soon shifted into high drive.

Casts of Wild Love

Antonella Lualdi

as Adriana Latini, hairdresser

Franco Interlenghi

as Franco

Sergio Raimondi

as Nando 'Nandello' Latini, Adriana's brother

Valeria Moriconi

as Marisa

Nino Manfredi

as Otello, hairdresser

Nadia Bianchi

as Alba Del Bosco, diva of comics

Oscar Blando

as Er Gratta

Decimo Cristiani

as Luciano

Alessandra Panaro

as Marcella

Gigi Reder

as Annibale

Toni Ucci

as Presenter at the 'Forbici d'Oro '

Gino Cervi

as Sir Cesare

Cosetta Greco

as Ines

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