The Innocent (1976) ( L'Innocente ) ( L'Innocent )

The Innocent (1976) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: L'Innocente
Alternate Title: L'Innocent
Screened, competed or awarded at:
David Donatello Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
124 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1976 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Luchino Visconti

Written By:
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Suso Cecchi d'Amico

Actors:
Giancarlo Giannini ..... Tullio Hermil
Laura Antonelli ..... Giuliana Hermil
Jennifer O'Neill ..... Teresa Raffo
Rina Morelli ..... Tullio's Mother
Massimo Girotti ..... Count Stefano Egano
Didier Haudepin ..... Federico Hermil
Marie Dubois ..... The Princess
Roberta Paladini ..... Miss Elviretta
Claude Mann ..... The Prince
Marc Porel ..... Filippo d'Arborio
Philippe Hersent
Elvira Cortese
Siria Betti
Enzo Musumeci Greco
Alessandra Vazzoler

Synopsis:

Based on a novel by Gabriele d'Annunzio, The Innocent (L'Innocente) is set amongst the aristocracy of 19th-century Italy. Wealthy Tullio (Giancarlo Giannini) thinks nothing of squiring his mistress (Jennifer O'Neill) in full view of his friends and the public. But when Giannini's cast-off wife (Laura Antonelli) begins an affair with a young novelist (based, it is said, on author d'Annunzio), it is too much for the philandering aristocrat. Unable to accept the fact that his wife is bearing the child of another, Giannini ultimately kills himself. Outside of Erich von Stroheim, few directors were as masterful at combining lavishness with depravity as Luchino Visconti. The Innocent turned out to be Visconti's last film; he died in 1976, shortly before the picture's premiere.

Luchino Visconti's last film based on a novella by Gabrielle d'Annunzio is a haunting account of aristocratic chauvinism and sexual double standards in turn of the century Italy. Giannini as the psichotic husband whose lust cannot be satisfied. Antonelli as his sensitive and tormented wife and O'Neil as cunning possesive mistress.

Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 09 March, 2014.