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3 unusual facts about L'Avventura


L'Avventura

After they pass Basiluzzo, Anna impulsively jumps into the water for a swim, and Sandro jumps in after her.

Villa Palagonia, Bagheria, Palermo, Sicily, Italy (the Customs House in Milazzo)

Basiluzzo, Aeolian Islands, Messina, Sicily, Italy (where Anna jumps from the yacht)


Angela Bianchini

She translated Medieval French Novels (Romanzi medievali d'amore e d'avventura, Grandi Libri Garzanti, now reprinted and in CD-ROM), and edited a Renaissance correspondence (Lettere della fiorentina Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi, Garzanti 1989).

Giancarlo Alessandrini

That same year Alessandrini started working for Catholic weekly Il Giornalino, where he drew some episodes of the series Ai confini dell'avventura and Storie di tutti i tempi.

Lea Massari

Massari become known in art cinema for two roles, the missing girl Anna in Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura (1960), and as Clara, the mother of a sexually precocious 14 year old boy named Laurent (Benoît Ferreux) in Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart (1971).

Luisa Ferida

In 1939, whilst working on Un Avventura di Salvator Rosa (1940) directed by the celebrated Alessandro Blasetti, she met Osvaldo Valenti.

Sergio Toppi

He produced adventure/historical titles for CEPIM's Un uomo un'avventura and, for the French publisher Larrousse, some episodes of Histoire de France en bandes dessinées and La Découverte du Monde.

Umberto Sclanizza

Films included: Un' Avventura di Salvator Rosa (The Adventure of Salvator Rosa) (1939); Sei bambine ed il Perseo (Perseus and the six children) (1940); Il Re d'Inghilterra non paga (The King of England Won't Pay) (1941); Don Buonaparte (1941); Don Cesare di Bazan (1942) aka La Lama del giustiziere, (The Executioner's Blade Italy: reissue title).


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