Un gioco per Eveline (transl. A Game for Eveline) is a 1971 Italian film directed by Marcello Avallone.
| Un gioco per Eveline | |
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| Directed by | Marcello Avallone |
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| Story by | Augusto Guglielmi[1] |
| Produced by | Ernesto Di Fresco[1] |
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| Cinematography | Aldo Scavarda[1] |
| Edited by | Paolo Lucignani[1] |
| Music by | Marcello Giombini[1] |
Production company | Diva Cinematografica[1] |
| Distributed by | Panta Cinematografica |
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Running time | 85 minutes[1] |
| Country | Italy[1] |
Director Marcello Avallone described his original desire for the film to make a film related to "the Fantastic, I wrote a 'noir', a genre we rarely did in Italy."[1] Italian film historian and critic Roberto Curti stated that the film was not a film noir, but a ghost story.[1] According to Erna Schurer, the film was funded by "a mafioso...he used to pay us by putting money inside a newspaper, I remember him coming over in weekends, carrying these small packages..."[2]
The film was shot in Mondello, Sicilly in 1969.[3]
It took two years before Un gioco per Eveline was submitted to the Italian Board of Censors.[2] was distributed theatrically in Italy by Panta Cinematografica on 16 July 1971.[1] The film grossed a total of 43,833,000 Italian lire on its domestic release.[1] Avallone was so disappointed by the results of the film, that he gave up on film and returned to television documentaries until the film Cugine mie in 1976.[2]