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Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and Red Desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age—about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by Antonioni muse Monica Vitti, wandering through a bleak industrial landscape beset by power plants and environmental toxins, and tentatively flirting with her husband’s coworker, played by Richard Harris—continues to keep viewers spellbound. With one startling, painterly composition after another—of abandoned fishing cottages, electrical towers, looming docked ships—Red Desert creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema’s preeminent poet of the modern age.
Original Release
10/29/1964
US Release
02/08/1965
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Monica Vitti | Giuliana |
Richard Harris | Corrado Zeller |
Carlo Chionetti | Ugo |
Rita Renoir | Emilia |
Lili Rheims | Telescope operator's wife |
Aldo Grotti | Max |
Valerio Bartoleschi | Valerio - Giuliana's son / Valerio (Giuliana's son) |
Emanuela Pala Carboni | Girl in fable |
Bruno Borghi | |
Beppe Conti |
Directors
Writers
Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra
Cast
Name | Character |
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Monica Vitti | Giuliana |
Richard Harris | Corrado Zeller |
Carlo Chionetti | Ugo |
Rita Renoir | Emilia |
Lili Rheims | Telescope operator's wife |
Aldo Grotti | Max |
Valerio Bartoleschi | Valerio - Giuliana's son / Valerio (Giuliana's son) |
Emanuela Pala Carboni | Girl in fable |
Bruno Borghi | |
Beppe Conti | |
Giulio Cotignoli | |
Giovanni Lolli | |
Hiram Mino Madonia | |
Giuliano Missirini | Radio telescope operator |
Arturo Parmiani | |
Carla Ravasi | Jole |
Ivo Scherpiani | |
Bruno Scipioni | |
Francis Vogner | Linda |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Tonino Cervi | Producer |
Angelo Rizzoli | Producer |