| Edition |
DVD edition |
| Description |
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.) |
| Series |
The Criterion collection ; 522 |
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 522.
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| System Details |
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby digital mono.; widescreen presentation, preserving the 1.85:1 aspect ratio of the original theatrical exhibition, enhanced for 16:9 televisions. |
| Cast |
Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir, Lili Rheims, Aldo Grotti, Valerio Bartoleschi, Emanuela Paola Carboni. |
| Credits |
Direttore della fotografia [= director of photography], Carlo Di Palma; montaggio [= editing], Eraldo Da Roma ; musica, Giovanni Fusco ; cantata da [= sung by] Cecilia Fusco ; diretta da [= music directed by] Carlo Savina ; musica elettronica da composizioni di [= electronic music composed by], Vittorio Gelmetti ; scenografia [= production design], Piero Poletto ; costumista [= costumes], Gitt Magrini. |
| Summary |
Guiliana is the wife of Ugo, a plant manager in Ravenna. Recently released from the hospital after a car accident, Giuliana is in dire straits mentally, but Ugo thinks she's just hysterical. When she meets the charming Corrado, he seems sympathetic, shares her feeling of being lost, but he doesn't fully understand and his amatory advances are not what she needs. Living in the shadow of industry, surrounded by the blighted landscape of the mechanized wasteland, Guiliana faces the full horror of existential doubt alone, and modernist culture offers her no solace, comfort, or concrete prescription to alleviate her anguish. |
| Note |
Originally produced as an Italian/French motion picture in 1964. |
| Awards |
Winner, Golden Lion (Michelangelo Antonioni), FIPRESCI Prize (Michelangelo Antonioni), 1964 Venice Film Festival. |
| Contents |
Strike -- Need for workers -- Still not well -- Giuliana's shop -- Fears -- Medicina -- Beliefs -- Shack -- Cry -- Mistakes -- Home -- Plans for Patagonia -- Valerio -- Story about a girl -- Giuliana and Ugo -- Readjusted -- Separate -- Yellow smoke -- Color bars. |
| Language |
In Italian with optional subtitles in English. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Existentialism -- Drama.
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Alienation (Social psychology) -- Drama.
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Married women -- Psychology -- Drama.
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Women -- Conduct of life -- Drama.
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Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
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Industrialization -- Psychological aspects -- Drama.
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Adultery -- Drama.
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Motion pictures, Italian.
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Ravenna (Italy) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Drama.
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Ravenna (Italy)
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Adultery. (OCoLC)fst00797378
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Alienation (Social psychology) (OCoLC)fst00805268
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Existentialism. (OCoLC)fst00918204
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Industrialization -- Psychological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00971841
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Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
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Married women -- Psychology.
(OCoLC)fst01010731
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Motion pictures, Italian. (OCoLC)fst01027497
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Women -- Conduct of life.
(OCoLC)fst01176610
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Italy -- Ravenna.
(OCoLC)fst01204953
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Feature films -- Italy.
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Feature films -- France.
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Italian-language films.
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Foreign language films -- Italian.
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Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
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Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
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Fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710264
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired. (OCoLC)fst01710450
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| Added Author |
Antonioni, Michelangelo. Screenwriter. Author. Director.
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Guerra, Tonino. Screenwriter. Author.
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Cervi, Tonino. Producer.
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Vitti, Monica. Actor.
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Harris, Richard, 1930-2002. Actor.
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Chionetti, Carlo. Actor.
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Valderi, Xenia. Actor.
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Renoir, Rita. Actor.
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Rheims, Lili. Actor.
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Grotti, Aldo. Actor.
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Bartoleschi, Valerio. Actor.
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Carboni, Emanuela Paola. Actor.
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Janus Films.
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Film Duemila.
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Franco Riz (Firm)
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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| Note |
Title on container: Michelangelo Antonioni's Red desert |
| Added Title |
Red desert |
| Standard No. |
715515058117 |
| ISBN |
1604652764 |
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9781604652765 |
| Music No. |
CC1894D Criterion Collection |
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