I delfini / Silver Spoon Set (in the presence of Francesco Maselli and Betsy Blair)

Francesco Maselli: I delfini / Silver Spoon Set (IT 1960) starring Claudia Cardinale (Fedora), Gérard Blain (Anselmo Foresi), Anna Maria Ferrero (Marina Castelfranco), Betsy Blair Countess Margherita Cherè), Sergio Fantoni (Doctor Mario Corsi), Tomas Milian (Alberto De Matteis), Germana Paolieri (the mother of Anselmo and Elsa Foresi).

(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.