Red Desert (Il Deserto rosso) (1964)

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Directed by

Michelangelo Antonioni

Starring (View all)

Monica Vitti
Giuliana

Richard Harris
Corrado Zeller

Carlo Chionetti
Ugo

Xenia Valderi
Linda

Rita Renoir
Emilia

Lili Rheims
Telescope operator's wife

Aldo Grotti
Max

Valerio Bartoleschi
Valerio - Giuliana's son

Written by

Michelangelo Antonioni

Tonino Guerra

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Description: Cold, rain, and fog surround a plant in Ravenna. Factory waste pollutes local lakes; hulking anonymous ships pass or dock and raise quarantine flags. Guiliana, a housewife married to the plant manager, Ugo, is mentally ill, hiding it from her husband as best she can. She meets Zeller, an engineer en route to Patagonia to set up a factory. He pursues her, they join friends for a dinner party of sexual play, then, while Ugo is away on business, she fears that her son has polio. When she discovers the boy is faking, she goes to Zeller, panicked that no one needs her. He takes advantage of her distress, and she is again alone and il ... (more)

Release date: 29 October 1964
UPC: 014381478020

Tags: Italy (8), Drama (8), Italian (7), 1960s (7), 1964 (6), Modern World (4), Neurotic (3), Factory (2), Ship (2), Anxiety Disorder (2), Depression (2), Electronic Music (2), 60's (2), Alienation (2), Suicide (2), Hypochondriac (1), Color In Title (1), Very Little Dialogue (1), Extramarital Affair (1), Suicidal (1)

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