Back Хроника на една любов Bulgarian Cronaca di un amore Catalan Cronaca di un amore Welsh Chronik einer Liebe German Cronaca di un amore Esperanto Crónica de un amor (película de 1950) Spanish Chronique d'un amour French Cronaca di un amore Italian 어느 사랑의 연대기 Korean Cronaca di un amore Dutch
| Story of a Love Affair | |
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| Directed by | Michelangelo Antonioni |
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| Story by | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Produced by | Franco Villani |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Enzo Serafin |
| Edited by | Eraldo Da Roma |
| Music by | Giovanni Fusco |
Production company | Villani Film |
| Distributed by | Fincine |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Story of a Love Affair (Italian: Cronaca di un amore), released in the United Kingdom as Chronicle of a Love, is a 1950 Italian drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni in his feature-length directorial debut. The film stars Massimo Girotti and Lucia Bosè in lead roles. Despite some neorealist background, the film was not fully compliant with the contemporary Italian neorealist style both in its story and image, featuring upper-class characters portrayed by professional actors. Ferdinando Sarmi was, however, a fashion designer rather than a professional actor. Its story was inspired by the James M. Cain novel The Postman Always Rings Twice.[1] In the film, the camera pans the same street corner in Ferrara, the director's native city, that appears in his film Beyond the Clouds forty-five years later.[2] In 1951, the film won the Nastro d'Argento Award for Best Original Score (Giovanni Fusco) and the Special Nastro d'Argento (Michelangelo Antonioni) for "human and stylistic values".[3][4]
In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[5]
- ^ Leprohon, Pierre (1965): Michelangelo Antonioni (Cinema d'Aujourd'hui No.2), Éditions Seghers, page 23
- ^ Johnson, Ian (August 2006). "We're Not Happy and We Never Will Be". Bright Lights Film Journal. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
- ^ Hammer, Tad Bentley (1991). International Film Prizes: An Encyclopedia. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. Vol. 1333. Garland Publishing, Inc. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-8240-7099-1.
- ^ "1951" (in Italian). Nastri d'Argento. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
- ^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 11 March 2021.