Unknown Man of San Marino

The Unknown Man of San Marino
Directed by	Michał Waszyński
Written by	Cesare Zavattini Vittorio Cottafavi Giulio Morelli
Starring	Anna Magnani Vittorio De Sica Antonio Gandusio
Cinematography	Arturo Gallea
Edited by	Mario Serandrei
Music by	Alessandro Cicognini
Production company	Film Gamma
Distributed by	Generalcine
Release date	29 October 1946 (1946-10-29)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
Box office	71 million Lira[1]

The Unknown Man of San Marino (Italian: Lo Sconosciuto di San Marino) is a 1946 Italian drama film directed by Michał Waszyński and starring Anna Magnani, Vittorio De Sica and Antonio Gandusio.[2]

It was shot at the Icet Studios in Milan and on location around the Republic of San Marino where it is set. The screenwriter Cesare Zavattini and the actors Anna Magnani and Vittorio De Sica were key figures in the neorealist movement which was at its height when the film was made.

Synopsis

During the closing stages of the Second World War, refugees pour into San Marino. One of them is a foreigner who has apparently lost his memory. Liana, a prostitute, is very sympathetic towards him. He also bonds with members of the Polish Army he encounters. However, during a religious procession to mark the fall of the German Gothic Line, he is jolted by the memory of an atrocity he committed while serving with German forces against a similar procession. Filled with remorse, he commits suicide by walking into a minefield.

Cast

• Anna Magnani as Liana, la prostituta
• Vittorio De Sica as Leo, l'ateo
• Aurel Milloss as Lo sconosciuto
• Antonio Gandusio as Don Antonio, il prete
• Renata Bogdanska as Wanda
• Irma Gramatica as Agata
• Franca Belli as Beatrice
• Giuseppe Porelli as Filippo, l'autista
• Fausto Guerzoni as Marino
• Aristide Garbini as il cerimoniere
• Enrico Maria Salerno as MP Wolf

References

1. Chiti & Poppi p.375
2. Sieglohr p.156

Bibliography

• Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991.
• Sieglohr, Ulrike. Heroines Without Heroes: Reconstructing Female and National Identities in European Cinema, 1945-51. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.

External links

• Lo Sconosciuto di San Marino at IMDb