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Sep 17, 1975 · Swept Away: Directed by Lina Wertmüller. With Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Riccardo Salvino, Isa Danieli. A trip into the Mediterranean sea becomes a trip into the discovery of how society's frameworks of the rich and poor are delicate and temporary.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Lina Wertmüller
- 1975-09-17
Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August (Italian: Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto), usually shortened to Swept Away, is a 1974 Italian romantic adventure comedy drama written and directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato. The film follows a wealthy woman ...
Aug 26, 2023 · The person who dubbed Giancarlo Giannini does an especially brilliant voice acting job, with an endearingly playful quality that makes it easier to empathize with Gennarino / Pasqualino in the two films.
- 114 min
- 719
- Don Alex
Class warfare hits the high seas in this Italian comedy about Gennarino (Giancarlo Giannini), a long-suffering crew member who works on a rich couple's...
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- Lina Wertmüller
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- Giancarlo Giannini
Lina Wertmuller's "Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August" resists the director's most determined attempts to make it a fable about the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, and persists in being about a man and a woman.
The political posturing of these pompous and wealthy intellectuals and their pampered women are particularly grating to the scruffy seaman Gennarino Carunchio (Giancarlo Giannini), a poor local and avowed Communist who quickly becomes bitterly sorry that he ever signed on to this particular voyage.
Aug 5, 2020 · Swept Away is a 1974 Italian adventure comedy-drama romance film written and directed by Lina Wertmüller and starring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato.
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- 19.9K
- TheHuntleyHaverstock