Special Correspondents (1943 film)

1943 film

Special Correspondents

Directed by| Romolo Marcellini
Written by|

* Giuseppe Castelletti
* Alberto Consiglio
* Ennio Flaiano
* Asvero Gravelli
* Virginio Lilli
* Romolo Marcellini

Starring|

* Dorothea Wieck
* Otello Toso
* Maurizio D'Ancora

Cinematography| Rodolfo Lombardi
Edited by| Vincenzo Zampi
Music by| Mario Ruccione

Production
companies

* Consorzio Italiano Film
* Littoria Film

Distributed by| ENIC

Release date

* 27 April 1943 (1943-04-27)

Running time

| 90 minutes
Country| Italy
Language| Italian

Special Correspondents (Italian: Inviati speciali) is a 1943 Italian romantic thriller film directed by Romolo Marcellini and starring Dorothea Wieck, Otello Toso and Maurizio D'Ancora.[1] It was produced as a propaganda film in support of the Italian war effort during the Second World War, released a few months before the overthrow of Benito Mussolini's regime.

It was shot at the Farnesina Studios of Titanus in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alberto Boccianti and Camillo Del Signore.

## Synopsis

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During the Spanish Civil War an Italian journalist meets a woman he takes to be a colleague, but is in fact a Communist agent. They encounter each other years later during the North African Campaign, where she has a change of heart and heroically sacrifices herself.

## Cast

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* Dorothea Wieck as Lidia Warren
* Otello Toso as Renato Marini
* Maurizio D'Ancora as L'operatore Galletti
* Nerio Bernardi as Il maggiore Alessandri
* Mino Doro as Il giornalista Prosperi
* Francesco Grandjacquet as Il commissario Michele Kuncef
* Carlo Duse as L'ufficiale di Stato Maggiore in Africa
* Barbara Ledi as Barbara Wood
* Luigi Pavese as Un colonnello
* Piero Palermini as Il giovane tenente
* Emilio Petacci as Richardson
* Otello Cazzola as De Gariata
* Mario Brizzolari as Il colonnello Garcia
* Maria Teresa Le Beau as L'informatrice
* Rita Livesi as La direttrice dell' hotel a Biarritz
* Paolo Ferrara as Baldassare
* Adele Garavaglia as La signora del telegrafo
* Saro Urzì as Un soldato

## References

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1. ^ Trubiano p.16

## Bibliography

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* Trubiano, Marisa S. Ennio Flaiano and His Italy: Postcards from a Changing World. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2010.

## External links

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* Special Correspondents at IMDb

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Books written|

* A Time to Kill (1947)
* The Via Veneto Papers (1973)

Feature films written|

* Special Correspondents (1943)
* L'abito nero da sposa (1945)
* Escape to France (1948)
* Variety Lights (1950)
* Cops and Robbers (1951)
* The White Sheik (1952)
* Cavalcade of Song (1953)
* Finishing School (1953)
* I Vitelloni (1953)
* Camilla (1954)
* Modern Virgin (1954)
* La Strada (1954)
* Woman of Rome (1954)
* Il bidone (1955)
* The Sign of Venus (1955)
* Too Bad She's Bad (1955)
* Toto and Carolina (1955)
* Lucky to Be a Woman (1956)
* The Rocket from Calabuch (1956)
* Nights of Cabiria (1957)
* Fortunella (1958)
* Girls for the Summer (1958)
* Piece of the Sky (1958)
* La Dolce Vita (1960)
* Love in Rome (1960)
* La Notte (1961)
* Ghosts of Rome (1961)
* 8½ (1963)
* The Executioner (1963)
* Tonio Kröger (1964)
* The 10th Victim (1965)
* The Blood of the Walsungs (1965)
* Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
* Run for Your Wife (1965)
* The Protagonists (1968)
* Sundance and the Kid (1969)
* The Syndicate: A Death in the Family (1970)
* Liza (1972)
* The Inquiry (1986)

Segments written|

* "Elisabeth" in Daughters of Destiny (1954)
* "Outdoor Life" in A Slice of Life (1954)
* "The Temptations of Doctor Antonio" in Boccaccio '70 (1962)

Legacy|

* Premi Flaiano

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