The Voyage of Captain Fracassa

Il viaggio di Capitan Fracassa

Italy, France

1990

132 Min

Color

1.85:1

Italian

Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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PROD Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Franco Committeri, Luciano Ricceri

SCR Furio Scarpelli, Ettore Scola, Vincenzo Cerami, Fulvio Ottaviano, Silvia Scola, Théophile Gautier

CAST Vincent Perez, Emmanuelle Béart, Massimo Troisi, Ornella Muti, Lauretta Masiero, Toni Ucci, Massimo Wertmüller, Jean-François Perrier, Tosca D'Aquino

ED Raimondo Crociani, Francesco Malvestito

PROD DES Paolo Biagetti, Luciano Ricceri

In the Eighteenth Century, the “Traveling Company of Scenic Arts” composed of Tyrant, Lady Leonarde, Serafina, Isabella, Leandre, Zerbina, Matamore and Pulcinella gets lost while traveling to Paris in bad weather. They see a castle and ask the servant Pietro if they can spend the night. They soon learn that the destroyed castle belongs to the ruined nobleman Jean Luc Henry Camille, the Baron of Sigognac. Pietro asks the company to take Sigognac with them to Paris as King Luis XIII’s father was saved by the baron’s father, Henrique de Navarra, and Luis XIII would certainly reward Sigognac in gratitude. He also secretly gives one hundred gold coins to Pulcinella to serve Sigognac. –IMDb

Director

Ettore Scola

Ettore Scola (born 10 May 1931) is an Italian screenwriter and film director. Scola was born in Trevico, province of Avellino (Campania).

He entered the film industry as a screenwriter in 1953, and directed his first movie, Let’s Talk About Women, in 1964. In 1974 Scola enjoyed international success with We All Loved Each Other So Much (C’eravamo tanto amati), a wide fresco of post-World War II Italy life and politics, dedicated to fellow director Vittorio De Sica. In 1976 he won the Prix de la mise en scène at Cannes Film Festival for Brutti, sporchi e cattivi.

Since then Ettore Scola has made several successful films, including A Special Day (1977), That Night In Varennes (1982), What Time Is It? (1989) and Captain Fracassa’s Journey (1990). Ettore Scola has directed close to 40 films in some 40 years, and he is still active.

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