La Terrazza movie storyline. Perhaps a little over-ambitious for the casual audience unfamiliar with the Italian world of entertainment and politics, La Terrazza involves a total of eight main protagonists and how they have changed or are changing. All eight are sitting on a terrace talking, while flashbacks and flashforwards fill in their past, present, and future relationships.
Enrico (Jean-Louis Tritignant) is a burnt-out screenwriter, Amedeo (Ugo Tognazzi) is a self-made producer, Mario (Vittorio Gassman) is a communist member of parliament who is having an affair with the married Giovanna (Stefania Sandrelli) and is otherwise having a hard time trying to tow the tough, virtuous line the party demands. Giovanna, as well as the other women on the terrace, have all the spirit of people looking forward to the future while the men have been there and found it wanting.
La Terrazza is a 1980 Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola. The all-star cast features the best of Italian Cinema of its era: Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Serge Reggiani, Stefano Satta Flores, Stefania Sandrelli, Carla Gravina, Ombretta Colli, Milena Vukotic. The film director Ettore Scola and the screenwriter Agenore Incrocci make cameo appearances.
Directed by: Ettore Scola
Starring: Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Enrico D’Orsi, Marie Trintignant, Marcello Mastroianni, Stefania Sandrelli, Carla Gravina, Ombretta Colli, Milena Vukotic
Screenplay by: Ettore Scola, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli
Production Design by: Luciano Ricceri
Cinematography by: Pasqualino De Santis
Film Editing by: Raimondo Crociani
Costume Design by: Ezio Altieri
Makeup Department: Corrado Cristofori, Franco Freda
Music by: Armando Trovajoli
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: United Artists Europa (Italy), Gaumont (France)
Release Date: February 8, 1980 (Italy), May 11, 1980 (France – Cannes Film Festival)a
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