Michelangelo Antonioni - I Vinti (1953)

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Commonly and to some extent unjustly written off as a failure, in part because of alterations imposed by censorship pressures that marred the first two episodes, Michelangelo Antonioni's daring second feature (1952), originally released in England as Youth and Perversion, consists of three separate sketches chronicling senseless murders committed by young men in France, Italy, and England--a contemporary existentialist document that could almost have been coscripted by Albert Camus. What's most striking in all three parts of the film is the integration of incident with landscape without psychologizing--something of an Antonioni staple--and the last and best segment strikingly anticipates Blowup by offering not only a corpse found in a park but a tennis match glimpsed in the final shot. Jean-Pierre Mocky, later a New Wave director, plays one of the French youths in the first section, and Fay Compton plays the murder victim in the last. -- Jonathan Rosenbaum, From the Chicago Reader

I vinti (English: The Vanquished) is a 1953 Italian black-and-white drama film composed of three episodes. The film was dubbed into Italian, the three episodes, although the Paris episode is spoken in French, and the London episode in English. Italian DVD by Medusa Film offers the restored uncut trilingual version. The Italian episode was modified by censorship but it was put in 1962 anthology film Il fiore e la violenza. The French episode had troubles with French censorship (it was not released until 1963); and the same happened to the English one with the British Board of Review.

The film was a project of Film Costellation to Suso Cecchi d'Amico, who proposed Antonioni as director.

Episodes
Episode Francese, set in Paris, with Jean-Pierre Mocky, Etchika Choureau, Henri Poirier, Albert Michel
Episode Italiano, set in Rome, with Franco Interlenghi as Claudio; Anna-Maria Ferrero as Marina; Eduardo Ciannelli as Claudio's father; Evi Maltagliati
Episode Anglese, set in London, with Patrick Barr as Ken Wharton; Fay Compton as Mrs Pinkerton; Peter Reynolds, David Farrar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_vinti

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