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La Notte ()

La notte (original title)
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A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.
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Giovanni Pontano
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Lidia Pontano
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Valentina Gherardini
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Tommaso Garani
Rosy Mazzacurati ...
Resy
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Nymphomaniac
Guido A. Marsan ...
Fanti (as Guido Ajmone Marsan)
Vittorio Bertolini
Vincenzo Corbella ...
Mr. Gherardini
Ugo Fortunati ...
Cesarino
Gitt Magrini ...
Signora Gherardini
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Roberto
Roberta Speroni ...
Berenice
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Valentino Bompiani ...
Self (uncredited)
Roberto Danesi ...
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Man at the Party (uncredited)
Giansiro Ferrata ...
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Giorgio Gaslini ...
Self (uncredited)
Alceo Guatelli ...
(uncredited)
Odile Jean ...
(uncredited)
Ottiero Ottieri ...
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Self (uncredited)
Ettore Univelli ...
(uncredited)
Eraldo Volonté ...
(uncredited)

Directed by

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Michelangelo Antonioni

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Michelangelo Antonioni ... (story) &
Ennio Flaiano ... (story) &
Tonino Guerra ... (story)
 
Michelangelo Antonioni ... (screenplay) &
Ennio Flaiano ... (screenplay) &
Tonino Guerra ... (screenplay)

Produced by

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Emanuele Cassuto ... producer

Music by

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Giorgio Gaslini

Cinematography by

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Gianni Di Venanzo

Editing by

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Eraldo Da Roma

Production Design by

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Piero Zuffi

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Micheline Chaperon ... makeup artist: Jeanne Moreau (as Mimí Chaperon)
Franco Freda ... makeup artist
Simone Knapp ... hair stylist: Jeanne Moreau (as Simone Knapp Dougué)
Amalia Paoletti ... hair stylist

Production Management

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Roberto Cocco ... production supervisor
Paolo Frascà ... production manager

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Franco Indovina ... assistant director
Berto Pelosso ... assistant director (as Umberto Pelosso)

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Mauro Bertinotti ... assistant production designer
Giuseppe Ranieri ... assistant production designer
Mario Solá ... assistant production designer

Sound Department

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Claudio Maielli ... sound technician
Antonio Catalano ... sound restoration (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department

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Pasqualino De Santis ... camera operator (as Pasquale De Santis)
Sergio Strizzi ... still photographer
Erico Menczer ... assistant camera (uncredited)

Music Department

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Giorgio Gaslini ... musician
Alceo Guatelli ... musician: saxophone
Ettore Univelli ... musician: double bass
Eraldo Volonté ... musician: drums

Script and Continuity Department

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Liana Ferri ... script supervisor

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Emanuele Cassuto ... presenter
Giuseppe Rinaldi ... voice dubbing: Giorgio Negro (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

Giovanni and Lidia have been married for several years now and their marriage has become a functional arrangement, devoid of love--and any other emotion. They go through the motions but barely care anymore. After visiting a dying friend, their time together is filled with long silences. Lidia visits a neighborhood where they once lived but little has changed there. At a party that evening, Giovanni spends time with a beautiful woman and Lidia spends time with a playboy. The party goes on all night, and by the next morning, Giovanni and Lidia start to try to work out their difficulties. Written by garykmcd

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Taglines Many nights led to this night, nights of time, nights of fear, nights of love, nights of loneliness, nights of pursuit and conquest, nights without privacy, and this night - a night of truth. See more »
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Also Known As
  • Dare e avere (Italy)
  • La Nuit (France)
  • The Night (United States)
  • The Night (World-wide, English title)
  • La Notte (United States)
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  • 122 min
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Trivia (Cameo) Umberto Eco: a guest at the Gherardini family party. See more »
Goofs When Giovanni pours champagne in the hospital, Bernhard Wicki (Tommaso) looks straight to the camera while turning his head from Lidia to Giovanni. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Episode dated 1 December 1961 (1961). See more »
Quotes Lidia: [reading from a piece of paper] "When I awoke this morning, you were still asleep. As I slowly emerged from my slumber, I heard your gentle breathing and through the wisps of hair over your face I saw your closed eyes and I could barely contain my emotion. I wanted to cry out, to wake you up, because you slept so deeply, you almost seemed lifeless. In the half light, the skin of your arms and throat appeared so vibrant, so warm and dry that I longed to press my lips against it, but the thought of disturbing your sleep, of you awake in my arms again, held me back. I preferred you like this, something on one could take from me bacause it was mine alone - - this image of you that would be everlasting. Beyond your face I saw my own reflection in a vision that was pure and deep. I saw you in a dimension that encompassed all the times of my life, all the years to come, even the years past as I was preparing to meet you. That was the little miracle of this waking moment: to feel for the first time that you were and always would be mine and that this night would go on forever with you beside me, - with the warmth of your blood, your thoughts, and your will mixed with mine. At that moment, I realized how much I loved you, Lidia, and the intensity of the emotion was such that tears welled up in my eyes. For I felt that this must never end, that all our lives should be like an echo of this dawn, with you no belonging to me but actually a part of me, something breathing within me that could could ever destroy except the apathy of habit, which is the only threat I see. Then you awoke and with a sleepy smile, kissed me, and I felt there was nothing to fear that we'd always be as we were at that moment, bound by something stronger than time and habit."
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