Voyage To Italy ( Viaggio in Italia )

Voyage To Italy (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Viaggio in Italia
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
83 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1954 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Roberto Rossellini

Written By:
Vitaliano Brancati
Roberto Rossellini

Actors:
Ingrid Bergman ..... Katherine Joyce
George Sanders ..... Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
Leslie Daniels ..... Tony Burton
Natalia Ray ..... Natalie Burton
Maria Mauban ..... Marie
Anna Proclemer ..... Prostitute
Jackie Frost ..... Betty
Paul Muller ..... Paul Dupont

Synopsis:

Catherine and Alexander, wealthy and sophisticated, drive to Naples to dispose of a deceased uncle's villa. There's a coolness in their relationship and aspects of Naples add to the strain. She remembers a poet who loved her and died in the war; although she didn't love him, the memory underscores romance's absence from her life now. She tours the museums of Naples and Pompeii, immersing herself in the Neapolitan fascination with the dead and noticing how many women are pregnant; he idles on Capri, flirting with women but drawing back from adultery. With her, he's sarcastic; with him, she's critical. They talk of divorce. Will this foreign couple find insight and direction in Italy?

In Naples to sell Uncle Homer's villa, London business man George Sanders and wife Ingrid Bergman find that, after eight years of marriage, they have little to say to each other. And as the closing drags on, Bergman remembers a died-too-young poet who loved her, Sanders frets about time away from work, and they split apart - she to stare at the rawness of the statuary in the Museum, the ionization of Vesuvian craters, the skeletons at the cemetery; he to dally with friends on Capri, languidly pursue an estranged wife, and to wave off an attractive prostitute; both to finally view the plaster molds of the dead of Pompeii. Little happens, and yet subtly we see the degeneration of a marriage. Will it take a miracle to save it? Unsuccessful on first release, but over the years steadily climbing the ranks of All-Time Ten Best lists. Approx.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 16 March, 2009.

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