Traffic Jam (film)

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Traffic Jam

Film poster
Directed by Luigi Comencini
Produced by Anna Maria Clementelli
Silvio Clementelli
Michael Fengler
Written by Luigi Comencini
Starring Annie Girardot
Music by Fiorenzo Carpi
Cinematography Ennio Guarnieri
Editing by Nino Baragli
Release dates
  • 12 January 1979 (1979-01-12)
Running time 121 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

Traffic Jam (Italian: L'ingorgo - Una storia impossibile) is a 1979 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Comencini.[1] It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.[2]

Plot

In a main thoroughfare on the outskirts of Rome thousands of motorists are bottled in terrible traffic jam for twenty-four hours. In a stretch of road there is a gallery of characters which behaviour gets weird. There are a selfish and hypocritical entrepreneur in a luxury car; a young hippie girl harassed then raped by some dandies; a family from Naples on the way to Rome to abort their daughter; an old couple that argues all the time; a patient that dies in the ambulance; an old actor hosted in a small country house near the road; a globe trotter girl who is hitchhiking to the stopped cars; some youngsters of Far Left Wing and so on. The day after traffic starts back. The entrepreneur hires the girl from Naples for a record company, in exchange for a sexual service. raped the girl is comforted by a guy who wants to avenge her but then he gives up. The rapists leave again quiet.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "NY Times: Traffic Jam". NY Times.com. Retrieved 2009-03-28. 
  2. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Traffic Jam". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-24. 

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