Taglines: Two brothers a sister… and their strange love.
China is Near movie storyline. A pair of working class lovers – a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry. Their targets are a professor, Vittorio Gordini Malvezzi ,(Glauco Mauri), who is running for municipal office as a Socialist candidate, and his sister Elena, (Elda Tattoli), a great lady who lets every man in town climb on top of her but won’t marry because socially they’re all beneath her.
Vittorio doesn’t get what is going on. Their little brother Camillo, a seventeen year old seminary student turned Maoist provides the title of the film when he scrawls ‘China is Near’ on the walls of the Socialist Party building, his brother’s campaign headquarters.
China Is Near (Italian: La Cina è Vicina) is a 1967 Italian drama film written and directed by Marco Bellocchio. It is a satirical movie about the struggle for political and social power. The film stars are Glauco Mauri, Elda Tattoli, Paolo Graziosi, Daniela Surina, Pierluigi Aprà, Alessandro Haber, Claudio Trionfi, Laura De Marchi, Claudio Cassinelli, Rossano Jalenti and Mimma Biscardi.
China is Near (1967)
Directed by: Marco Bellocchio
Starring: Glauco Mauri, Elda Tattoli, Paolo Graziosi, Daniela Surina, Pierluigi Aprà, Alessandro Haber, Claudio Trionfi, Laura De Marchi, Claudio Cassinelli, Rossano Jalenti, Mimma Biscardi
Screenplay by: Marco Bellocchio, Elda Tattoli
Production Design by: Mimmo Scavia
Cinematography by: Tonino Delli Colli
Film Editing by: Roberto Perpignani
Art Direction by: Mimmo Scavia
Music by: Ennio Morricone
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Columbia C.E.I.A.D. (Italy), Royal Films International (USA)
Release Date: September 22, 1967
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