''Fantasma d'amore'' () is a 1981

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

directed by

Dino Risi Dino Risi (23 December 1916 – 7 June 2008) was an Italian film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of '' commedia all'italiana''. Biography Risi was born in Milan. He had an ...

that stars

Romy Schneider Romy Schneider (; born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach; 23 September 1938 – 29 May 1982) was a German-French actress. She began her career in the German genre in the early 1950s when she was 15. From 1955 to 1957, she played the central chara ...

and Marcello Mastroianni.

Plot

Nino, a married tax accountant, sees on a bus Anna, the woman he loved 20 years ago, now poor and ill. After he gives her money for her fare, she hops off and disappears. That night she rings him at his home to say she can repay him and he goes to the dingy address she gives, where he takes the money and she again disappears. Later it emerges that the concierge has been bloodily murdered. To the dismay of his wife, he becomes obsessed with Anna, seeing flashbacks of her when young and beautiful and trying to meet her again. After a doctor friend of his who knew her says she died three years ago, he is found dead at the hospital where he worked. She rings him to say he can visit her at a mansion in the country. To his joy, the young Anna welcomes him, but will not let him make love since she is now married to the owner, Count Zighi. Later, she rings to say they can make love in a boat on the river as they used to do. When he stops the boat in a quiet place, she falls in and disappears under the water. Nino informs the police, who start searching, and his irate wife leaves him. Going to Count Zighi to explain, he is told by the angry count that Anna died three years ago. This is confirmed by the housekeeper, who takes him to the grave. Going back to the police, he apologises for his story and says he was in fact with a prostitute. They say that a body has been found, but it is a man who was on the river bank. The film ends in the grounds of a nursing home, where a shapely nurse comes to bring Nino indoors. When we see her face, it is the young Anna.

Cast

as Anna Brigatti Zighi * Marcello Mastroianni as Nino Monti *

Eva Maria Meineke Eva Maria Meineke (8 October 1923 - 7 May 2018) was a German actress. She appeared in more than one hundred films from 1942 to 2008, including '' Yesterday Girl'' and '' Something for Everyone''. Selected filmography References External li ...

as Teresa Monti *

Wolfgang Preiss Wolfgang Preiss (27 February 1910 – 27 November 2002) was a German theatre, film and television actor. The son of a teacher, Preiss studied philosophy, German, and drama in the early 1930s. He also took private acting classes with Hans Schle ...

as Conte Zighi *

Michael Kroecher Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...

as Don Gaspare * Paolo Baroni as Ressi *

Victoria Zinny Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...

as Loredana * Giampiero Becherelli as Prof. Arnaldi *

Ester Carloni Ester Carloni (born as Esterina Carloni) ( 1904 – 6 April 1996) was an Italian actress. She appeared in more than forty films from 1958 to 1992. Her siblings Pietro, Adelina (or Adele), Maria and Ettore were fellow actors. Her brother Piet ...

* Riccardo Parisio Perrotti *

Raf Baldassarre Raf Baldassarre (17 January 1932 - 11 January 1995) was an Italian film actor. Life and career Born Raffaele Baldassarre in Giurdignano, Lecce, Apulia, he started his career in the late 1950s, being cast in many peplum and adventure films, a ...

as Luciano * Maria Simona Peruzzi * Liliana Pacinotti *

Adriana Giuffrè Adriana Giuffrè (born 9 March 1939) is an Italian actress. She appeared in more than fifty films since 1961. Filmography References External links * 1939 births Living people Italian film actresses People of Calabrian descent

Production

''Fantasma d'amore'' was shot on location in

Pavia Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the cap ...

and Cine Industrial Studios in Rome. The film started shooting in October 26, 1980.

Release

''Fantasma d'amore'' was distributed by Ceiad in Italy on 3 April 1981. It was released in France as ''Fantôme d'amour'' on 29 April 1981 and in West Germany on 21 May 1982 as ''Die zwei Gesichter einer Frau''. The film was also screened at the 1982

Chicago International Film Festival The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every fall. Founded in 1964 by Michael Kutza, it is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America. Its logo is a stark, black and white close up of the compo ...

in October 1982.

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* {{Dino Risi 1981 films 1981 drama films Italian drama films West German films 1980s Italian-language films Films directed by Dino Risi Films scored by Riz Ortolani Films shot in Italy 1980s Italian films