For the retrospective “A Tribute to Marcello Mastroianni, 20 years after his departure”, screening of the movie directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, con Marthe Keller, Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Elena Safonova, Isabella Rossellini.
Romano (Marcello Mastroianni) is living the life of a “kept” man in that he is the penniless husband of a rich aristocratic woman who supports him. Whenever life at home becomes too difficult for him, he goes off to some spa or other for a “rest cure.” In addition to resting, the clownish fellow flirts shamelessly with the women he finds at these resorts. During one of his restorative excursions, he meets a shy Russian woman named Anna, whom he is much taken with. When she leaves to return to her life at home, he resolves to follow her and woo her there. With a great deal of buffoonery and ingenuity (such as pretending to be a manufacturer of a special kind of glass), he gets a visa to travel into Russia. There, he finds her unhappily married to a minor official, and before he leaves for Europe he promises to return and marry her. When he gets back home, he finds that his aristocratic wife is experiencing a genuine crisis (her family has lost its money), and he soon forgets about Anna and his promises to her.
In Italian, with Hebrew and English subtitles.
- SPECIAL DISCOUNTED PRICE reserved to the friends of the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa: 27 NIS (instead of 35 NIS). In order to book your tickets, please call the number 04-8338888 and give the code: Machon Italki.
Saturday, December 25th 2016, at 21:00
Rappapot Hall, 142 Hanassi Avenue – Haifa