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1860 (film)

1934 film by Alessandro Blasetti

Field	Value
name	1860
image	1860 (film).jpg
director	Alessandro Blasetti
producer	Emilio Cecchi
writer	{{Plainlist
starring	{{Plainlist
music	Nino Medin
cinematography	{{Plainlist
editing	{{Plainlist
studio	Società Italiana Cines
distributor	Societa Anonima Stefano Pittaluga
released
runtime	80 minutes
country	Italy
language	Italian

Emilio Cecchi
Gino Mazzucchi
Alessandro Blasetti
Giuseppe Gulino
Aida Bellia
Gianfranco Giachetti
Mario Ferrari
Anchise Brizzi
Ignazio Ferronetti
Giacinto Solito
Alessandro Blasetti

1860 is a 1934 Italian historical film directed by Alessandro Blasetti, starring Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia and Gianfranco Giachetti.

The film presages Italian neorealism in that it was shot mainly on location while some scenes were shot at the Cines Studios in Rome. Also, most contemporaneous historical epics used a star to focus on grand historical characters. This film focuses on a character who nobody knows or will ever know, a patriot riding to get the assistance of Giuseppe Garibaldi. This film (in its heralding of neorealism) illustrates how the average man plays a part in grand histories. The film also uses non-actors (a key element of Italian neorealism), a rarity for its time and era.

Plot

The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan (as part of the Risorgimento) to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type.

The film ends on the battlefield, making Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.

Cast

The film includes many non-professional actors, Gianfranco Giachetti (brother of Fosco Giachetti), Maria Denis, and Mario Ferrari. It was the last film of Ugo Gracci. A list of the non-actors includes Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia and many others.

Scholarly and other interpretation

Gabriella Romani, in an Italica article from 2002 (part of the JSTOR arts and sciences complex), writes:

Certainly the film drew upon the Soviet films of Sergei Eisenstein and the Macchiaioli painters, but just as important may be, the "Risorgimento female iconography was produced by nineteenth-century patriotic painters and writers."

Notes

References

As stated by [[Richard Pena]] of the [[Film Society of Lincoln Center]] at the beginning of the screening {{when. (November 2012)
Gabriella Romani, ''Italica'', Vol. 79, No. 3 (Autumn 2002), pp. 391-–404

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