Anna (1951 film)

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1951 Italian film

Anna

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Directed by| Alberto Lattuada
Written by| Giuseppe Berto
Franco Brusati
Ivo Perilli
Dino Risi
Rodolfo Sonego
Produced by| Dino De Laurentiis
Carlo Ponti
Starring| Silvana Mangano
Raf Vallone
Vittorio Gassman
Gaby Morlay
Patrizia Mangano
Cinematography| Otello Martelli
Edited by| Gabriele Varriale
Music by| Nino Rota
Distributed by| Lux Film

Release date

* 20 December 1951 (1951-12-20)

Running time

| 107 minutes
Country| Italy
Language| Italian

Anna is a 1951 Italian melodrama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who becomes a nun, Raf Vallone as Andrea, the rich man who loves her, and Vittorio Gassman as Vittorio, the wicked waiter who sets Anna on a dangerous path.

Silvana Mangano's real sister, Patrizia Mangano, acts as Anna's sister in the film. Sophia Loren has a small uncredited role as a nightclub assistant. Future film directors Franco Brusati and Dino Risi co-wrote the script.

The film features the songs "Non Dimenticar" and "El Negro Zumbón", a baião popularised in the US as "Anna" and recorded much later by Pink Martini.

## Plot

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A man (Vallone) suffers a car accident. He's taken to hospital, where Sister Anna (Mangano) takes care of him. The man is the reason Anna became a nun. She remembers the days she was leading a life of sin as a night club singer.

## Reception

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Anna is one of the greatest box office successes of Italian cinema. "El Negro Zumbón" became a classic in Italy and Spain. Nanni Moretti paid a tribute in Dear Diary, in which the song is shown on a TV, and the opening of the song is featured in Cinema Paradiso.

## Dubbed voices

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In the original Italian version, the voices of many actors in the film are dubbed:

* Silvana Mangano: Lydia Simoneschi
* Vittorio Gassman: Gualtiero De Angelis
* Raf Vallone: Mario Pisu
* Gaby Morlay: Tina Lattanzi
* Tina Lattanzi appears in the film as Andrea's mother, and she is dubbed by Giovanna Scotto.
* Other voices heard in this film are: Emilio Cigoli, Giuseppe Rinaldi, Rosetta Calavetta and Miranda Bonansea.

## External links

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* Anna at IMDb

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Films directed by Alberto Lattuada

* Giacomo the Idealist (1943)
* The Bandit (1946)
* Flesh Will Surrender (1947)
* Without Pity (1948)
* The Mill on the Po (1949)
* Anna (1951)
* Variety Lights (1951)
* The Overcoat (1952)
* Love in the City (1953)
* La lupa (1953)
* The Beach (1954)
* Guendalina (1957)
* Tempest (1958)
* Lettere di una novizia (1960)
* The Mishap (1960)
* Sweet Deceptions (1960)
* Mafioso (1962)
* The Steppe (1962)
* The Mandrake (1965)
* Matchless (1967)
* Don Juan in Sicily (1967)
* Fräulein Doktor (1969)
* L'amica (1969)
* Come Have Coffee with Us (1970)
* White Sister (1972)
* Sono stato io (1973)
* I'll Take Her Like a Father (1974)
* Dog's Heart (1976)
* Oh, Serafina! (1976)
* Stay as You Are (1978)
* The Cricket (1980)
* A Thorn in the Heart (1986)

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Nino Rota

* List of compositions
* film scores
* Discography

Operas|

* I due timidi (1950)
* Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (1955)
* La notte di un nevrastenico (1959)
* Napoli milionaria (1977)

Concertos|

* Trombone Concerto

Film soundtracks|

* Romeo and Juliet
* The Godfather
* "Speak Softly, Love"
* The Godfather Part II
* The Godfather Part III

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