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Il sorpasso

Author

Dino Risi

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

Two-DVD special edition.

Languages

In Italian, with English subtitles.

Performers

Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak, Claudio Gora, Luciana Angiolillo.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2014]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (unpaged : illustrations ; 19 cm)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

A waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and a straitlaced law student take a madcap trip from Rome to Tuscany.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.

Special features: New 2K digital restoration ; new introduction by filmmaker Alexander Payne ; new interviews with screenwriter Ettore Scola and film scholar Rémi Fournier Lanzoni ; interview from 2004 with director Dino Risi, conducted by film critic Jean A. Gili ; introduction by actor Jean-Louis Trintignant from a 1983 French television broadcast of the film ; "A beautiful vacation," a 2006 documentary on Risi featuring interviews with the director and his collaborators and friends ; excerpts from a 2012 documentary that returns to Castiglioncello, the location for the film's beach scenes ; excerpts from Speaking with Gassman, a 2005 documentary on the relationship between actor Vittorio Gassman and Risi, directed by Risi's son Marco ; trailer.

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