The Red Tent (film)
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| The Red Tent | |
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 Soviet billboard theatrical poster of the film |
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| Directed by | Mikhail Kalatozov |
| Produced by | Franco Cristaldi Victor Freilich |
| Written by | Richard L. Adams, Ennio De Concini, Robert Bolt (uncredited) |
| Starring | Sean Connery as Roald Amundsen, Claudia Cardinale, Peter Finch, Nikita Mikhalkov, Yuri Vizbor, Donatas Banionis |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone (international version) Aleksandr Zatsepin |
| Cinematography | Leonid Kalashnikov |
| Editing by | John Shirley Peter Zinner |
| Distributed by | Mosfilm, Vides Cinematografica, Empresa Hispanoamericana de Video, Paramount Home Video, Paramount Pictures, Sovexportfilm |
| Release date(s) |  1969 23 December 1969 19 September 1970 May 1971 29 July 1971 10 September 1971 15 October 1971 17 January 1972 3 February 1972 |
| Running time | 158 min (Russian version) / 121 min (International version) |
| Country | USSR / Italy /  United Kingdom |
| Language | Russian / Italian / English |
| Budget | $10,000,000 |
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The Red Tent (translit. Krasnaya palatka, Russian: Красная палатка, Italian: La tenda rossa, Spanish: La tienda roja) is a joint Soviet/Italian 1969 film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov.
The film is based on a story of a mission to rescue Umberto Nobile. It features Sean Connery as Roald Amundsen and Nikita Mikhalkov as Krasin icebreaker pilot.
International version of the film features original music by Ennio Morricone, with Dino Asciolla as violin solo and Bruno Nicolai as the conductor.
Film was nominated for 1972 Golden Globe award as the best English-language foreign film.
Vladimir Visotskiy wrote a song (a separate entity, not for a film) about Sean Connery's visit to USSR for the filming process. He was one who met Connery at the airport. [1]
[edit] Plot summary
[edit] Cast
- Sean Connery as Roald Amundsen
- Claudia Cardinale as Nurse Valeria
- Hardy Krüger as Aviator Lundborg
- Peter Finch as General Umberto Nobile
- Massimo Girotti as Romagna, rescue mission coordinator
- Luigi Vannucchi as Captain Zappi
- Mario Adorf as Biagi, radio operator
- Eduard Martsevich as Finn Malmgren, meteorologist officer
- Grigori Gaj as Samoilovich, Captain of the Russian Krasin icebreaker
- Nikita Mikhalkov as Chuknovsky, icebreaker pilot
- Nikolai Ivanov as Kolka, radio amateur
- Boris Khmelnitsky as Viglieri
- Yuri Solomin as Troiani
- Yuri Vizbor as František Běhounek
- Donatas Banionis as Mariano
[edit] External links
- Krasnaya palatka at IMDB
- The Red Tent at sean-connery.narod.ru (Russian)
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