''The Beach'' (Italian: ''La spiaggia'') also internationally released as ''Riviera'' and ''The Boarder'') is a 1954 French-Italian
comedy drama film
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...
directed by
Alberto Lattuada
Alberto Lattuada (; 13 November 1914 – 3 July 2005) was an Italian film director.
Career
Lattuada was born in Vaprio d'Adda, the son of composer Felice Lattuada. He was initially interested in literature, becoming, while still a student, a mem ...
and starring
Martine Carol
Martine Carol (born Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer; 16 May 1920 – 6 February 1967) was a French film actress.
Career
Born Maryse Mourer (or Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer) in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, (France), she studied acting und ...
,
Raf Vallone
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and ...
and
Mario Carotenuto
Mario Carotenuto (30 June 1916 – 14 April 1995) was an Italian actor of film and theatre.
Biography
Carotenuto, the son of a silent film actor and younger brother of the actor Memmo Carotenuto, took various humble jobs for many years be ...
. In 2008 the film was selected to enter the list of the
100 Italian films to be saved
The list of the ''100 Italian films to be saved'' ( it, 100 film italiani da salvare) was created with the aim to report "100 films that have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978".
History
The project was established ...
.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Dario Cecchi
Dario Cecchi (1918–1992) was an Italian art director and costume designer.Bayman p.113
Selected filmography Art director
* ''Flesh Will Surrender'' (1947)
* '' Devotion'' (1950)
* '' Women Without Names'' (1950)
* ''In Olden Days'' (1952)
* '' ...
. It was shot at the
Titanus Studios
Titanus is an Italian film production company, founded in 1904 by Gustavo Lombardo (1885–1951). The company's headquarters are located at 28 Via Sommacampagna, Rome and its studios on the Via Tiburtina, 13 km from the centre of Rome.
Lomb ...
in
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
, map_caption ...
and
on location around
Savona
Savona (; lij, Sann-a ) is a seaport and ''comune'' in the west part of the northern Italy, Italian region of Liguria, capital of the Province of Savona, in the Riviera di Ponente on the Mediterranean Sea.
Savona used to be one of the chie ...
in
Liguria
Liguria (; lij, Ligûria ; french: Ligurie) is a Regions of Italy, region of north-western Italy; its Capital city, capital is Genoa. Its territory is crossed by the Alps and the Apennine Mountains, Apennines Mountain chain, mountain range and is ...
.
Plot
At a luxury resort on the Italian coast, a prostitute takes her young daughter for a vacation but tries to conceal her true profession from her fellow guests. She is courted by the local mayor, before her past is exposed to the gossipy society of the resort.
Cast
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Martine Carol
Martine Carol (born Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer; 16 May 1920 – 6 February 1967) was a French film actress.
Career
Born Maryse Mourer (or Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer) in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, (France), she studied acting und ...
as Anna Maria Mentorsi
*
Raf Vallone
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and ...
as Silvio, il sindaco di Pontorno
*
Mario Carotenuto
Mario Carotenuto (30 June 1916 – 14 April 1995) was an Italian actor of film and theatre.
Biography
Carotenuto, the son of a silent film actor and younger brother of the actor Memmo Carotenuto, took various humble jobs for many years be ...
as Carlo Albertocchi
*
Carlo Romano
Carlo Romano (8 May 1908 – 16 October 1975) was an Italian actor, voice actor and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Livorno, Romano was the son of actress Dina Romano and the younger brother of actor Felice Romano. Romano started his acting ...
as Luigi
*
Clelia Matania
Clelia Matania (28 March 1918 – 14 October 1981) was an Italian film and voice actress.
Life and career
Born in London, the daughter of the Capri-born naturalized Briton painter Fortunino Matania (best known as Saturnino), Matania attended t ...
as la signora Albertocchi
*Carlo Bianco as Chiastrino, il milionario
*
Nico Pepe
Nico Pepe (19 January 1917 – 13 August 1987) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1936 and 1981.
Selected filmography
* '' The Two Sergeants'' (1936)
* ''The Cavalier from Kruja'' (1940)
* '' Captain Fraca ...
as ex-fumatore magro
*
Mara Berni
Mara Berni (born 12 June 1932) is an Italian former stage, television and film actress.
Life and career
Born in Brunate, Como as Mara Bernasconi, Berni debuted on stage as a child actress with the "Compagnia dei Piccoli" directed by Wanda Petr ...
as la signora Marini
*
Valeria Moriconi
Valeria Moriconi (''née'' Abbruzzetti; November 15, 1931 – June 15, 2005) was an Italian actress who appeared both in movies and on stage.
Biography
Valeria was born in Iesi, in Marche, central Italy. Her earliest work was as a stage actress. ...
as Gughi, l'esistenzialista
*
Marcella Rovena
Marcella Rovena (22 January 1905 – 6 October 1991) was an Italian film and voice actress. Born in Conegliano, she started her career on the big screen in 1932 with director Nunzio Malasomma
Nunzio Malasomma (4 February 1894 – 12 J ...
as Luigina, moglie di Roberto
*
Rosy Mazzacurati
Rosy Mazzacurati (born in 1938) is an Italian former film and stage actress.
Life and career
Born in Ferrara, Mazzacurati was the daughter of the sculptor and painter Renato Marino Mazzacurati. Eager to embark on an acting career, at young age ...
as la signora snob
*
Marco Ferreri
Marco Ferreri (11 May 1928 – 9 May 1997) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor, who began his career in the 1950s directing three films in Spain, followed by 24 Italian films before his death in 1997. He is considered one of t ...
as ex-fumatore grasso
*
Ennio Girolami
Enio Girolami (14 January 1935 – 16 February 2013), sometimes credited as Thomas Moore, was an Italian film and television actor.
Born in Rome, son of director Marino Girolami and brother of director Enzo G. Castellari, Girolami made his ...
as Riccardo
References
Bibliography
* Bayman, Louis. ''Directory of World Cinema: Italy''. Intellect Books, 2011.
External links
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1954 films
Films directed by Alberto Lattuada
1954 comedy-drama films
Italian comedy-drama films
French comedy-drama films
Titanus films
1950s Italian-language films
Films set in Liguria
1950s Italian films
1950s French films
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