Movie Details
Original Language:Italian
1848
Audience Score
StarringLucia Bosè
DirectorDino Risi
11 minDocumentary
Plot
The real masterpiece among these early works by Risi is certainly 1848 Made to order for the centenary of the Milan uprising against Austrian rule the film opens with a group of soldiers apathetically attending the dress rehearsal for a ballet at La Scala Who knows if Visconti remembered it for the opening of Senso at the Fenice in Venice when he certainly had in mind a little film directed by Corrado DErrico in 1941 La Compagnia della teppa in which a group insurgents use a Rossini premiere at La Scala to launch leaflets against the Napoleonic occupation
