La Luna (Original title)The Moon (Alternative title)
Date: 1979 (Release)Country: ItalyDirector: Bernardo Bertolucci
Synopsis: After the death of her second husband a succesful opera singer moves to Rome with her adolescent son. He becomes addicted to heroin and she temporarily abandons her career to help him. Their relationship begins to border on incest so she decides to introduce him to his real father. The experience is traumatic, but ultimately cathartic.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Rome, Skateboarding, Opera, Incest
Releases
Date: 29 August 1979Country: ItalyRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 142 mins Length: 3808 MetresDialogue (original): Italian
Date: November 1979Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 142 mins Length: 12757 FeetDialogue (original): Italian / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Date: 1979 (Release)Country: ItalyDirector: Bernardo Bertolucci
Synopsis: After the death of her second husband a succesful opera singer moves to Rome with her adolescent son. He becomes addicted to heroin and she temporarily abandons her career to help him. Their relationship begins to border on incest so she decides to introduce him to his real father. The experience is traumatic, but ultimately cathartic.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Rome, Skateboarding, Opera, Incest
Releases
Date: 29 August 1979Country: ItalyRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 142 mins Length: 3808 MetresDialogue (original): Italian
Date: November 1979Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 142 mins Length: 12757 FeetDialogue (original): Italian / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Credits
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Production Company: Fiction Cinematografica, Producer: Giovanni Bertolucci, Production Secretary: Silvano Spoletini, Unit manager: Alessandro Mattei, Augusto Marabelli, Unit Manager: Pietro Sassaroli, Production Manager: Mario De Biase, Production Administrator: Solly Bianco, Administration: Franco Marras, Administration: Mario Sampaolo, Administration: Salvatore Farese, Assistant Director: Gabriele Polverosi, Assistant Director: Clare Peploe, Assistant Director: Jirges Ristum, Continuity: Patricia Caracciolo, Screenplay: Giuseppe Bertolucci, Screenplay: Clare Peploe, Screenplay: Bernardo Bertolucci, English Adaptation: George Malko, Original Story: Franco Arcalli, Original Story: Bernardo Bertolucci, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Director of Photography: Vittorio Storaro, Co-photographer (USA): Ed Lachman, Camera Operator: Enrico Umetelli, Assistant Camera Operator: Marco Profeta, Giovanni Muzziello, Special Effects: Franco Celli, Editor: Gabriella Cristiani, Assistant Editor: Elvio Sordoni, Art Director: Gianni Silvestri, Art Director: Maria Paola Maino, Assistant Art Director: Béatrice Caracciolo, Assistant Art Director: Luigi Silvio Marchione, Assistant Art Director: Tiziana Cassoni, Set Designer: Ferdinando Giovannoni, Set designer (Opera): Saro Lo Turco, Costumes: Lina Taviani, Costumes for Jill Clayburgh: Pino Lancetti, Costumes Assistant: Anna Cecchi, Make-up: Giuseppe Banchelli, Make-up Assistant: Antonio Maltempi, Hair: Iole Cecchini, Sound Recording: Mario Dallimonti, Microphone Operator: Corrado Volpicelli, Sound Re-recording: Fausto Ancillai, Sound Editor: Michael Billingsley
Cast
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Jill Clayburgh (Caterina Silveri), Matthew Barry (Joe), Laura Betti (Ludovica), Veronica Lazar (Marina), Renato Salvatori (communist man in Parma), Fred Gwynne (Douglas Winter), Alida Valli (Giuseppe's mother), Tomas Milian (Giuseppe), Elisabetta Campeti (Arianna), Juliana Adamoli (Julian), Franco Citti (Mario), Roberto Benigni (upholsterer), Carlo Verdone (director of Caracalla opera), Ronaldo Bonacchi (director of Caracalla orchestra), Peter Eyre (Edward), Stephane Barat (Mustafa), Pippo Campanini (innkeeper), Rodolfo Lodi (maestro Giancarlo Calo), Shara Di Nepi (Concetta, Caterina's maid), Iole Silvani (opera house wardrobe mistress), Francesco Mei (barman), Mimmo Poli (furniture mover), Massimiliano Filoni (small boy), Alessio Vlad (Caracalla orchestra conductor), Enzo Siciliano (opera orchestra conductor), Iole Cecchini (opera hairstylist), Nicola Nicoloso ("Il trovatore" tenor), Mario Tocci (Count di Luna, "II trovatore"), Franco Magrini (doctor), Liana Del Balzo (maestro's sister)