Tempest (1958 film)

1958 Italian film
  • December 1, 1958 (1958-12-01)
Running time
120 minutesCountriesItaly
France
YugoslaviaLanguagesItalian
EnglishBox office$1.5 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[1]

La tempesta (internationally released as Tempest) is a 1958 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada. It is based on A History of Pugachev (1834) and the 1836 novel The Captain's Daughter, both by Alexander Pushkin.[2] For this film Lattuada was awarded a David di Donatello for Best Director.[3]

Plot

Cast

  • Silvana Mangano as Masha
  • Van Heflin as Yemelyan Pugachev
  • Viveca Lindfors as Catherine II
  • Geoffrey Horne as Piotr Grinov
  • Vittorio Gassman as Prosecutor
  • Agnes Moorehead as Vassilissa Mironova
  • Robert Keith as Capt. Mironov
  • Oskar Homolka as Savelic
  • Finlay Currie as Count Grinov
  • Laurence Naismith as Maj. Zurin
  • Helmut Dantine as Svabrin
  • Fulvia Franco as Palaska
  • Aldo Silvani as Pope Gerasim
  • Claudio Gora as Minister of Caterine II
  • Guido Celano as the farmer
  • Cristina Gaioni as the young girl

References

  1. ^ "1959: Probable Domestic Take", Variety, 6 January 1960 p 34
  2. ^ Callisto Cosulich (1985). I Film di Alberto Lattuada. Gremese Editore, 1985. ISBN 8876051872.
  3. ^ Enrico Lancia (1998). I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 88-7742-221-1.
  • La tempesta at IMDb
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Films directed by Alberto Lattuada
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Films
  • Volga in Flames (1934)
  • The Captain's Daughter (1947)
  • Tempest (1958)
  • The Captain's Daughter (1958)
  • The Captain's Daughter (2000)
Opera
  • The Captain's Daughter
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