I delfini

(Not released in Finland). The Dauphins. IT 1960. PC: Lux Vides. P: Franco Cristaldi. D: Francesco Maselli. SC: Ennio De Concini, Maselli, Aggeo Savioli, con la collaborazione di Alberto Moravia. DP: Gianni Di Venanzo. M: Giovanni Fusco. Starring Betsy Blair, Claudia Cardinale, Gérard Blain, Anna-Maria Ferrero, Tomas Milian. 110'. Restauro realizzato dalla Cristaldi Film in collaborazione con la Fondazione Scuola Nazionale di Cinema-Cineteca Nazionale e con il contributo dell’Associazione Philip Morris Progetto Cinema, della Regione Marche – Assessorato alla Cultura e del Comune di Ascoli Piceno – Assessorato alla Cultura. In the presence of Betsy Blair (*1923) and Francesco Maselli (*1930). Tuesday 5 July 2005, Cinema Arlecchino, Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna. – Betsy Blair, who recently published her memoir, The Memory of All That (2003), was honored in Bologna with a tribute of three films including this quality piece from the golden age of Italian cinema. It's Antonioni land, and the configuration resembles Le amiche. Maselli is a good director of actors, some of them here at the beginning of their careers. It's a complex web of relationships in a little town where everything seems to turn around the town square, Café Meletti, and Villa de Matteis. – The Jewish connection: the foundation of the wealth of one of the rich men of the town is the fact that he has betrayed the trust of his Jewish companion during WWII. – A seguire incontro con Betsy Blair e Francesco Maselli. Betsy Blair was blacklisted in Hollywood and went to a permanent European exile to make films with Bardem, Antonioni, Maselli, etc.