Abandoned (1955 film)

Abandoned (Italian: Gli sbandati) is a 1955 Italian film set during the aftermath of the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943 during World War II. The film entered the 1955 Venice Film Festival, where it received a special mention.[1] It is the directorial debut of Francesco Maselli.[2] The music was composed by Giovanni Fusco and arranged by Ennio Morricone.[3]

Abandoned
Directed byFrancesco Maselli
Produced byAntonio Pellizari
Screenplay byEriprando Visconti
Francesco Maselli
Ageo Savioli
Story byEriprando Visconti
StarringLucia Bosé
Isa Miranda
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Antonio De Teffè
Giuliano Montaldo
Fernando Birri
Mario Girotti
Music byGiovanni Fusco
CinematographyGianni Di Venanzo
Edited byAntonietta Zita
Release date
  • August 29, 1955 (1955-08-29) (Venice Film Festival)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

In 2008 the film was selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved.[4][5]

Plot

In the summer of 1943, Countess Luisa and her son Andrea left Milan to escape the bombings and retired to their country villa, where they hosted two of Andrea's peers, his cousin Carlo, the son of a fascist hierarch who fled to Switzerland, and the friend Ferruccio, son of an army officer engaged in war. The three young people pass the time in the dolce far niente, sunbathing along the river, only vaguely aware of the ongoing conflict, thanks to the broadcasts of Radio London. They begin to become aware of the seriousness of the situation when displaced people arrive from the city and Andrea, out of weakness and not out of solidarity, is forced to accept to host some in the villa, to the annoyance of his mother.

Among the displaced there is the young worker Lucia, whom Andrea falls in love with and thanks to whom he finally comes out of his golden world to face the tragic reality that surrounds them and take responsibility. In the absence of his mother, to whom he is linked by a morbid relationship and towards whom he is in complete awe, he seems to mature and, when Italian soldiers arrive in the village, escaped from a German convoy that was taking them to the labor camps, he finds the courage to hide them in the villa, supported by Carlo and Lucia. But Ferruccio tells what is happening to the old fascist authorities of the country, who inform the Germans.

Having discovered the boy's denunciation, the runaway soldiers flee by truck towards the mountains and the partisans. Lucia, Carlo and Andrea should go with them, but the arrival of the countess, accompanied by a German officer, extinguishes all the initiative of the last, who agrees to stay with her and abandon her companions to their fate. As he drives away, safe, Andrea sees the German soldiers searching the villa and then when he hears gunshots he realizes, with desperation, that Lucia has been killed.

Cast

References
  1. Sight and sound, Volumes 24-25. British Film Institute.
  2. Gino Moliterno (2009). The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0810868960.
  3. "Gli Sbandati". Chi Mai. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
  4. Massimo Borriello (4 March 2008). "Cento film e un'Italia da non dimenticare". Movieplayer. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  5. "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare". Corriere della Sera. 28 February 2008. Retrieved 19 April 2013.


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