Tragic Hunt | |
Director: | Giuseppe De Santis |
Producer: | Giorgio Agliani Marcello Caccialupi |
Starring: | Vivi Gioi Massimo Girotti Carla Del Poggio Andrea Checchi |
Music: | Giuseppe Rosati |
Cinematography: | Otello Martelli |
Editing: | Mario Serandrei |
Studio: | Dante Film ANPI |
Distributor: | Libertas Film |
Runtime: | 90 Minutes |
Country: | Italy |
Language: | Italian |
Tragic Hunt (Italian: Caccia tragica) is a 1947 Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe De Santis and starring Vivi Gioi, Andrea Checchi and Carla Del Poggio. It was part of the wave of postwar neorealist films. It was one of two produced by the ANPI movement along with The Sun Still Rises from the previous year.
Future filmmakers Michelangelo Antonioni and Carlo Lizzani co-wrote the script. The film's sets were designed by the art director Carlo Egidi.
After the Second World War, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, a cooperative has been founded by peasants. War has destroyed the country. A group of bandits, with former Nazi-collaborator Daniela, known as 'Lili Marlene' (Vivi Gioi), holds up the truck where the money of the cooperative is travelling. All the peasants search for the thieves in a tragic hunt.
It won two Nastro d'Argento as Best Director and Best Supporting Actress (Vivi Gioi).