Traffic Jam (film)

1979 film by Luigi Comencini

Traffic Jam

Film poster

Directed by| Luigi Comencini
Written by| Luigi Comencini
Ruggero Maccari
Bernardino Zapponi
Based on| L'Autoroute du sud
by Julio Cortázar (uncredited)
Produced by| Anna Maria Clementelli
Silvio Clementelli
Michael Fengler
Starring|

* Alberto Sordi
* Annie Girardot
* Fernando Rey
* Patrick Dewaere
* Ángela Molina
* Harry Baer
* Marcello Mastroianni
* Stefania Sandrelli
* Ugo Tognazzi
* Miou-Miou
* Gérard Depardieu

Cinematography| Ennio Guarnieri
Edited by| Nino Baragli
Music by| Fiorenzo Carpi

Release date

* 12 January 1979 (1979-01-12)

Running time

| 121 minutes
Country| Italy
Language| Italian

Traffic Jam (Italian: L'ingorgo - Una storia impossibile) is a 1979 Italian satirical comedy-drama film directed by Luigi Comencini.[1] It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.[2] The film, although uncredited, is based on the 1966 short story "L'Autoroute du sud" by Julio Cortázar.[3]

## Plot[edit]

In a main thoroughfare on the outskirts of Rome, thousands of motorists are stuck in terrible traffic jam for twenty-four hours. In a stretch of road there is a variety of characters whose behaviour becomes strange. There is a selfish and hypocritical entrepreneur in a luxury car; a young hippie girl harassed and then raped by some dandies and a family from Naples on the way to Rome to abort their daughter.

The day the traffic jam clears, the entrepreneur hires the girl from Naples for a record company in exchange for a sexual service. The girl is raped and then comforted by a man who wants to avenge her but then gives up. The rapists leave quietly once more.

## Cast[edit]

* Annie Girardot as Irene
* Fernando Rey as Carlo
* Miou-Miou as Angela
* Gérard Depardieu as Franco
* Ugo Tognazzi as Professor
* Marcello Mastroianni as Marco Montefoschi
* Stefania Sandrelli as Teresa
* Alberto Sordi as De Benedetti
* Orazio Orlando as Ferreri
* Gianni Cavina as Pompeo
* Harry Baer as Mario
* Ángela Molina as Martina
* Ciccio Ingrassia as The Dying Man
* Patrick Dewaere as Young man
* José Sacristán as The Priest

## References[edit]

1. ^ "NY Times: Traffic Jam". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2012. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2009.
2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Traffic Jam". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
3. ^ Cento anni dalla nascita di Luigi Comencini, 5 film da non perdere e l'omaggio di Sky- Film.it (in Italian)

## External links[edit]

* Traffic Jam at IMDb

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Films directed by Luigi Comencini

* Hey Boy (1948)
* The Emperor of Capri (1949)
* Behind Closed Shutters (1951)
* Heidi (1952)
* Girls Marked Danger (1953)
* La valigia dei sogni (1953)
* Bread, Love and Dreams (1953)
* Bread, Love and Jealousy (1954)
* The Belle of Rome (1955)
* The Window to Luna Park (1957)
* Husbands in the City (1957)
* Mogli pericolose (1958)
* Le sorprese dell'amore (1959)
* And That on Monday Morning (1959)
* Everybody Go Home (1960)
* On the Tiger's Back (1961)
* The Police Commissioner (1962)
* Bebo's Girl (1963)
* Three Nights of Love (1964)
* My Wife (1964)
* Don Camillo in Moscow (1965)
* Six Days a Week (1965)
* Le bambole (1965)
* Incompreso (1966)
* Italian Secret Service (1968)
* Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969)
* Senza sapere niente di lei (1969)
* The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972)
* The Scientific Cardplayer (1973)
* Somewhere Beyond Love (1974)
* Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974)
* The Sunday Woman (1975)
* Basta che non si sappia in giro (1976)
* Strange Occasion (1976)
* Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
* The Cat (1977)
* Traffic Jam (1978)
* Eugenio (1980)
* Cercasi Gesù (1982)
* Cuore (1984)
* La Storia (1986)
* A Boy from Calabria (1987)
* La Bohème (1988)
* Merry Christmas... Happy New Year (1989)
* Marcellino (1992)

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