THE HUNCHBACK OF ROME
synopsis
Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo (Il Gobbo del Quarticciolo), during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt. He starts his career of rebel like a partisan against the German occupants, fighting for freedom. The war goes on, and after the Nazis the Allied enter Roma as liberators. Now the Hunchback, like all the Rome's inhabitants, is finally a free man. But he doesn't leave the renegade life style as expected. In fact the Hunchback becomes one of the most well known bandits of the city, representing a problem for the new "occupants": the Allied.
international title: | The Hunchback of Rome |
original title: | Il gobbo |
country: | Italy, France |
year: | 1960 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Carlo Lizzani |
film run: | 96' |
release date: | IT 01/12/1960, DE 22/06/1961, SE 05/03/1962, DK 29/03/1962, FR 26/08/1963, ES 18/05/1970 |
screenplay: | Ugo Pirro, Carlo Lizzani, Vittoriano Petrilli, Mario Socrate |
cast: | Gérard Blain, Anna Maria Ferrero, Bernard Blier, Ivo Garrani, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Nino Castelnuovo, Franco Balducci, Enzo Cerusico, Rocco Vidolazzi, Alex Nicol, Teresa Pellati, Maria Laura Rocca, Guido Celano |
cinematography by: | Giuseppe Aquari, Leonida Barboni, Aldo Tonti |
film editing: | Franco Fraticelli |
art director: | Mario Chiari |
costumes designer: | Piero Gherardi |
music: | Piero Piccioni |
producer: | Dino De Laurentiis |