The Wolves (1956 film)

The Wolves -Uomini e lupi-

Directed by	Giuseppe De Santis
Written by	Giuseppe De Santis Tonino Guerra Ivo Perilli Elio Petri Tullio Pinelli Ugo Pirro Gianni Puccini Cesare Zavattini
Starring	Silvana Mangano Yves Montand Guido Celano
Music by	Mario Nascimbene
Cinematography	Piero Portalupi
Edited by	Gabriele Varriale
Release date	1956
Running time	102 min
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Wolves (Italian: Uomini e lupi) is a 1956 Italian neorealistic drama film directed by Giuseppe De Santis.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Plot

In a small mountain village in Abruzzo, near L'Aquila, two young hunters of wolves fight therselves. The two are Ricuccio and Giovanni, who enjoy both the beautiful commoner Teresa. The two, risking their lives every day in the snow during the wolf hunts, also risk death because they are in constant conflict.

Cast

Silvana Mangano: Teresa
Yves Montand: Ricuccio
Pedro Armendáriz: Giovanni
Irene Cefaro: Bianca
Guido Celano: Don Pietro
Giulio Calì: Nazareno
Euro Teodori: Amerigo
Giovanni Matta: Pasqualino
Maria Zanoli
María Luisa Rolando

References

↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
↑ Vito Zagarrio. Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi: un neorealismo postmoderno. Fondazione Scuola nazionale di cinema, 2002. ISBN 8831778307.
↑ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.

External links

The Wolves on IMDb

Films directed by Giuseppe De Santis
Tragic Hunt (1947) • Bitter Rice (1949) • No Peace Under the Olive Tree (1950) • Rome 11:00 (1952) • A Husband for Anna (1953) • Days of Love (1954) • The Wolves (1956) • The Road a Year Long (1958) • La garçonnière (1960) • Attack and Retreat (1965) • Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire (1972)

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