''La supertestimone'' is a
1971 Italian
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film directed by
Franco Giraldi
Franco Giraldi (11 July 1931 – 2 December 2020) was an Italian director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Komen, Giraldi spent his childhood and adolescence between the Carso, Trieste and Gorizia. During the Second World War, still ...
. For this film
Monica Vitti
Monica Vitti (born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli; 3 November 1931 – 2 February 2022) was an Italian actress who starred in several award-winning films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the 1960s. After working with Antonioni, Vitti changed fo ...
was awarded with a
Globo d'oro
The Globo d'oro (internationally known as Italian Golden Globe) is an Italian annual film award. It was established in 1960 and it has as jury the Rome Foreign Press Association.
The first awards ceremony took place in 1960 and was won by the film ...
for Best Actress.
Plot
Marino Bottecchia, known as "Moccasin", lives on Tiziana, a prostitute his lover of whom he is the pimp. One Friday evening the girl is found killed: Marino, immediately suspected, proves to have an alibi. From the photos in the newspapers, which devote ample space to the squalid event and to its characters, Isolina Pantò - extravagant owner of a private asylum and former servant in a convent - recognizes the suspect whom she remembers seeing at the crime scene. The detailed and precise testimony of her sentenced Bottecchia to 20 years in prison, demolishing both the alibi and the testimonies in his favor. Isolina, who lives alone, has a friend who got married on the Thursday before the day of Tiziana's murder. This circumstance, reminded her by the bride, convinces Isolina that she has fallen into error. She repented, resorted to the judicial authority and obtained a review of the trial: Marino was not released, but sentenced to four years of imprisonment for minor offenses that emerged during the trial. Determined to make amends, Isolina lovingly assists the inmate, even moving to nearby the penitentiary in order to be closer to him. In short, the two end up falling in love and get married in prison. Finally free, Marino - after pretending not to be able to get a job - induces Isolina into prostitution and, when the woman shows that she is too fond of a client, he does not hesitate to reveal to her that he was the one to kill Tiziana.
Cast
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Monica Vitti
Monica Vitti (born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli; 3 November 1931 – 2 February 2022) was an Italian actress who starred in several award-winning films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the 1960s. After working with Antonioni, Vitti changed fo ...
: Isolina Pantò
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Ugo Tognazzi
Ugo Tognazzi (23 March 1922 – 27 October 1990) was an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter.
Early life
Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a travelling clerk fo ...
: Marino Bottecchia
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Orazio Orlando
Orazio Orlando (14 June 1933 – 18 December 1990) was an Italian film, stage and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Naples, Orlando attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome for two seasons, in 1953-54 and in 1954-55, without ...
: warden
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Véronique Vendell
Véronique Vendell (born Véronique Duraffourd, 21 July 1942) is a French actress. She appeared mainly in French and German productions, but had roles in both Peter Glenville's '' Becket'' and Sam Peckinpah's '' Cross of Iron'' and its sequel ' ...
: sister of Isolina
*Filippo De Gara: inspector
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Franco Balducci
Franco Balducci (23 November 1922 – 7 June 2001) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 75 films between 1947 and 1978. He was born in Umbria, Italy.
Selected filmography
* '' Bullet for Stefano'' (1947) - Giacomo
* ''Tempesta su Pari ...
: an inmate
*
Nerina Montagnani: mother of an inmate
*Roy Bosier: an inmate
*Ennio Antonelli: a witness
References
External links
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1971 films
Commedia all'italiana
Films directed by Franco Giraldi
Italian comedy films
Italian black comedy films
1970s black comedy films
Films scored by Luis Bacalov
Films about miscarriage of justice
1970s prison films
Films with screenplays by Ruggero Maccari
1971 comedy films
1971 drama films
1970s Italian-language films
1970s Italian films
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