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Genre
  
Drama, War

Music director
  
Country
  
Italy

7.6/10
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Initial DVD release
  
April 1, 2008

Duration
  

Language
  
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Director
  
Paolo TavianiVittorio Taviani

Release date
  
16 September 1982 (1982-09-16)

Writer
  
Paolo Taviani (screenplay), Vittorio Taviani (screenplay), Giuliani G. De Negri (screenplay), Tonino Guerra (collaboration)

Initial release
  
September 16, 1982 (Italy)

Directors
  
Vittorio Taviani, Paolo Taviani

Cast
  
(Galvano), (Concetta), (Corrado),
Miriam Guidelli
(Belindia), (Nicola),
Enrica Maria Modugno
(Mara)

Similar movies
  
Related Paolo Taviani movies

The Night of the Shooting Stars (UK: The Night of San Lorenzo, Italian: La Notte di San Lorenzo) is a 1982 Italian fantasy war drama film directed by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani. It was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Special Grand Prix. The film was also selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

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Plot

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The film follows several inhabitants of an Italian town during the end of World War II. Defeat is certain for the German army, and the front is retreating back to Germany, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. The Germans plan to blow up several buildings in the town, and have told all the villagers to congregate in the town's church. Approximately half of the town decides to stay, and place their trust in the church. The rest of the town dresses in dark clothing, and go out to seek the Americans, who are rumored to be nearby, liberating towns as they come to them.

Cast

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  • Omero Antonutti - Galvano
  • Margarita Lozano - Concetta
  • Claudio Bigagli - Corrado
  • Miriam Guidelli - Belindia
  • Massimo Bonetti - Nicola
  • Enrica Maria Modugno - Mara
  • Sabina Vannucchi - Rosanna
  • Giorgio Naddi - Bishop
  • Renata Zamengo - La Scardigli
  • Micol Guidelli - Cecilia
  • Massimo Sarchielli - Father Marmugi
  • Giovanni Guidelli - Marmugi Junior
  • Mario Spallino - Bruno
  • Paolo Hendel - Dilvo
  • Reception

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    The film was given a rapturous review by the critic Pauline Kael in The New Yorker : " The Night of the Shooting Stars is so good it's thrilling. This new film encompasses a vision of the world. Comedy, tragedy, vaudeville, melodrama - they're all here, and inseparable...In its feeling and completeness, Shooting Stars may be close to the rank of Jean Renoir's bafflingly beautiful Grand Illusion...unreality doesn't seem divorced from experience (as it does with Fellini) - it's experience made more intense...For the Tavianis, as for Cecilia, the search for the American liberators is the time of their lives. For an American audience, the film stirs warm but tormenting memories of a time when we were beloved and were a hopeful people."

    Soundtrack

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  • Richard Wagner, "O Star of Eve" from Tannhäuser

  • The Night of the Shooting Stars The Night of the Shooting Stars 1982 A Review by David Nusair

    The Night of the Shooting Stars The Night of the Shooting Stars 1982 IMDb

    The Night of the Shooting Stars The Night of the Shooting Stars Gene Siskel Film Center

    References

    The Night of the Shooting Stars Wikipedia
    The Night of the Shooting Stars IMDb The Night of the Shooting Stars themoviedb.org


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