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Abandoned (Italian: Gli sbandati) is a 1955 Italian film set during the aftermath of the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943 during World War II. The film entered the 1955 Venice Film Festival, where it received a special mention.[1] It is the directorial debut of Francesco Maselli.[2] The music was composed by Giovanni Fusco and arranged by Ennio Morricone.[3]

Abandoned
Directed by	Francesco Maselli
Screenplay by	Eriprando Visconti Francesco Maselli Ageo Savioli
Story by	Eriprando Visconti
Produced by	Antonio Pellizari
Starring	Lucia Bosé Isa Miranda Jean-Pierre Mocky Antonio De Teffè Giuliano Montaldo Fernando Birri Mario Girotti
Cinematography	Gianni Di Venanzo
Edited by	Antonietta Zita [it]
Music by	Giovanni Fusco
Release date	August 29, 1955 (1955-08-29) (Venice Film Festival)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

In 2008 the film was selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved.[4][5]

Plot

In the summer of 1943, Countess Luisa and her son Andrea left Milan to escape the Allied bombings of the city and retired to their country villa, where they hosted two of Andrea's peers, his cousin Carlo, the son of a Fascist official who fled to Switzerland, and the friend Ferruccio, son of an army officer engaged in war. The three young people pass the time in the dolce far niente, sunbathing along the river, only vaguely aware of the ongoing conflict, thanks to the broadcasts of Radio London. They begin to become aware of the seriousness of the situation when displaced people arrive from the city and Andrea, out of weakness and not out of solidarity, is forced to accept to host some in the villa, to the annoyance of his mother.

Among the displaced there is the young worker Lucia, whom Andrea falls in love with and thanks to whom he finally comes out of his golden world to face the tragic reality that surrounds them and take responsibility. In the absence of his mother, to whom he is linked by a morbid relationship and towards whom he is in complete awe, he seems to mature and, when Italian soldiers arrive in the village, escaped from a German convoy that was taking them to the labor camps, he finds the courage to hide them in the villa, supported by Carlo and Lucia. But Ferruccio tells what is happening to the old fascist authorities of the country, who inform the Germans.

Having discovered the boy's denunciation, the runaway soldiers flee by truck towards the mountains and the partisans. Lucia, Carlo and Andrea should go with them, but the arrival of the countess, accompanied by a German officer, extinguishes all the initiative of the last, who agrees to stay with her and abandon her companions to their fate. As he drives away, safe, Andrea sees the German soldiers searching the villa and then when he hears gunshots he realizes, with desperation, that Lucia has been killed.

Cast

• Lucia Bosé - Lucia
• Isa Miranda - Contessa Luisa
• Jean-Pierre Mocky - Andrea
• Goliarda Sapienza - Lucia's aunt
• Antonio De Teffè - Carlo
• Leonardo Botta [it] - Ferruccio
• Marco Guglielmi - Scattered soldiers' officer
• Giuliano Montaldo - Scattered soldier from Tuscany
• Ivy Nicholson - Andrea's girlfriend
• Fernando Birri - Scattered soldiers' lieutenant
• Franco Lantieri [it] - Scattered soldier from Veneto
• Giulio Paradisi
• Joop van Hulzen [it]
• Mario Girotti
• Manfred Freidbager
• Bianca Maria Ferrari
• Dori Ghezzi

References

External links

• Abandoned at IMDb

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