Disorder (1962 film) explained

Disorder
Director:	Franco Brusati
Producer:	Titanus Films
Music:	Mario Nascimbene
Cinematography:	Leonida Barboni
Editing:	Ruggero Mastroianni
Country:	Italy France

Disorder (Italian: Il disordine, French: Le Désordre) is a 1962 Italian-French comedy-drama film directed by Franco Brusati.^[1]

The story is a series of vignettes, in which a poor, uneducated young man (Renato Salvatori) tries to earn enough money to take his mother out of a nursing home and find a place where they both might live.

For his performance, Georges Wilson won the Golden Gate Award for Best Supporting Actor at the San Francisco International Film Festival.^[2]

Cast

• Louis Jourdan : Tom
• Susan Strasberg : Isabella
• Curd Jürgens : the father
• Alida Valli : the mother
• Renato Salvatori : Mario
• Georges Wilson : Don Giuseppe
• Sami Frey : Carlo
• Jean Sorel : Andrea
• Antonella Lualdi : Mali
• Tomas Milian : Bruno
• Adriana Asti

Reception

Film critic John Simon wrote that Disorder "left him cold".^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: Roberto Chiti . Roberto Poppi . Enrico Lancia . Mario Pecorari . Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. 1991 . Gremese Editore, 1992. 8876055932.
2. Web site: DISORDER. San Francisco International Film Festival. 13 August 2013.
3. Book: John Simon: Something to Declare Twelve Years Of Films From Abroad. Simon. John . Clarkson N. Potter Inc.. 1983 . 375.