And the Ship Sails On

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And the Ship Sails On
Italian release poster
Directed by	Federico Fellini
Produced by	Franco Cristaldi Renzo Rossellini (associate)
Starring	Freddie Jones Barbara Jefford Peter Cellier Norma West Pina Bausch
Music by	Gianfranco Plenizio
Cinematography	Giuseppe Rotunno
Editing by	Ruggero Mastroianni
Distributed by	Gaumont The Criterion Collection (DVD)
Release date(s)	Sept 7, 1983
Running time	132 min
Country	Italy / France
Language	Italian
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And the Ship Sails On (Italian: E la nave va) is a 1983 Italian film by Federico Fellini. It depicts the events on board a luxury liner filled with the friends of a deceased opera singer who have gathered to mourn her.

1 Story
2 Cast
- 2.1 Dubbed singing voice
3 External links

[edit] Story

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Much of the film is a mockumentary although that conceit is overlooked at various points. As the film opens, it depicts a scene in July 1914 immediately prior to the Gloria N. (a great ocean liner) setting sail. The opening sequence is in sepia tones, as if it were a film shot in that era, with no sound other than the whirring of the projector. Gradually the sepia fades into full colour and we can hear the dialogue of the characters. Mr. Orlando is an Italian journalist on the ship; he looks at the camera and explains that the voyage is a type of funeral, with the aim of dispersing the ashes of Edmea Tetua around the island of Erimo, where she was born. He explains that Edmea Tetua was the greatest singer of all time and had the voice of a goddess.

One morning, the ship's passengers find that there is a large group of Serbian refugees camping out on the deck of the ship. The captain had brought them aboard the previous night. One of the passengers is the Archduke of Herzog (part of Austria-Hungary) and his handlers consider the Serb refugees to be a security threat. Eventually an Austro-Hungarian battleship shows up and demands that the refugees be turned over, presumably to be taken prisoner or enslaved.

At the end, the film takes a bizarre turn into absurdism.

[edit] Cast

Freddie Jones - Orlando
Barbara Jefford - Ildebranda Cuffari
Victor Poletti - Aureliano Fuciletto
Peter Cellier - Sir Reginald J. Dongby
Elisa Mainardi - Teresa Valegnani
Norma West - Lady Violet Dongby
Paolo Paoloni - Il Maestro Albertini
Sarah-Jane Varley - Dorotea
Fiorenzo Serra - Il Granduca
Pina Bausch - La Principessa Lherimia
Pasquale Zito - Il Conte di Bassano
Linda Polan - Ines Ruffo Saltini
Philip Locke - Il Primo Ministro
Jonathan Cecil - Ricotin
Maurice Barrier - Ziloev
Fred Williams - Sabatino Lepori
Elizabeth Kaza
Colin Higgins - Il capo della polizia
Vittorio Zarfati - Secondo maestro Rubetti
Umberto Zuanelli - Primo maestro Rubetti
Claudio Ciocca - Secondo di bordo
Antonio Vezza - Le capitaine
Alessandro Partexano - Ufficiale
Domenico Pertica - Pastore
Christian Fremont
Marielle Duvelle
Helen Stirling
Janet Suzman - Edmea Tetua
Ginestra Spinola - La cousine d'Edmea
Umberto Barone
Monica Bertolotti
Danika La Loggia
Roberto Caporali - Padre di Dorotea
Franca Maresa - Madre di Dorotea
Savatore Calabrese
Johna Mancini
Filippo Degara
Francesco Scali
Cecilia Cerocchi
Pietro Fumelli
Franco Angrisano
Ugo Fangareggi

[edit] Dubbed singing voice

Mara Zampieri - Ildebranda Cuffari
Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz - Ines Ruffo Saltini
Nucci Condò - Teresa Valegnani
Giovanni Baviglio - Puciletto

[edit] External links

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Federico Fellini
Variety Lights (1950) • The White Sheik (1951) • I Vitelloni (1953) • L'Amore in Città (1953) • La Strada (1954) • Il bidone (1955) • Nights of Cabiria (1957) • La Dolce Vita (1960) • Boccaccio '70 (1962) • 8½ (1963) • Juliet of the Spirits (1965) • Satyricon (1969) • I Clowns (1970) • Roma (1972) • Amarcord (1973) • Fellini's Casanova (1976) • Prova d'orchestra (1979) • City of Women (1980) • And the Ship Sails On (1983) • Ginger and Fred (1986) • Intervista (1987) • La voce della luna (1990)

Federico Fellini

Variety Lights (1950) • The White Sheik (1951) • I Vitelloni (1953) • L'Amore in Città (1953) • La Strada (1954) • Il bidone (1955) • Nights of Cabiria (1957) • La Dolce Vita (1960) • Boccaccio '70 (1962) • 8½ (1963) • Juliet of the Spirits (1965) • Satyricon (1969) • I Clowns (1970) • Roma (1972) • Amarcord (1973) • Fellini's Casanova (1976) • Prova d'orchestra (1979) • City of Women (1980) • And the Ship Sails On (1983) • Ginger and Fred (1986) • Intervista (1987) • La voce della luna (1990)