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When Love Fails

Tribute to Michelangelo Antonioni 2012 / Tentato suicidio (Ep. L'amore in città) / Italy 1953

A story from the anthology film Love in the City, conceived as a survey examining the motives which led a group of people to attempt suicide. Discussions with real suicide candidates reveal both the immediate and underlying causes of their desperate act. This film will be screened in the Tribute to Michelangelo Antonioni I.

When Love Fails

Synopsis

A story from the anthology film Love in the City, conceived as a survey examining the motives which led a group of people to attempt suicide. Discussions with real suicide candidates reveal both the immediate and underlying causes of their desperate act.

About the film

24 min / Black & white, 35 mm

Director Michelangelo Antonioni / Dir. of Photography Gianni Di Venanzo / Music Mario Nascimbene / Production Faro Film, Rai Due / Cast Maria Nobili, Nella Bertuccioni, Rosanna Carta, Lilia Nardi / Contact Istituto Luce Cinecitta Srl, Tamasa Distribution

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Istituto Luce Cinecitta Srl
, 001 73, Rome
Italy

Tamasa Distribution
5 rue de Charonne, 75011, Paris
France
Phone: +33 143 590 101
E-mail: [email protected]

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