And the Ship Sails On
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| And the Ship Sails On | |
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 Italian release poster |
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| Directed by | Federico Fellini |
| Produced by | Franco Cristaldi Renzo Rossellini (associate) |
| Starring | Freddie Jones Barbara Jefford Peter Cellier Norma West Pina Bausch |
| Music by | Gianfranco Plenizio |
| Cinematography | Giuseppe Rotunno |
| Editing by | Ruggero Mastroianni |
| Distributed by | Gaumont The Criterion Collection (DVD) |
| Release date(s) |  Sept 7, 1983 |
| Running time | 132 min |
| Country | Italy / France |
| Language | Italian |
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And the Ship Sails On (Italian: E la nave va) is a 1983 Italian film by Federico Fellini. It depicts the events on board a luxury liner filled with the friends of a deceased opera singer who have gathered to mourn her.
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[edit] Story
Much of the film is a mockumentary although that conceit is overlooked at various points. As the film opens, it depicts a scene in July 1914 immediately prior to the Gloria N. (a great ocean liner) setting sail. The opening sequence is in sepia tones, as if it were a film shot in that era, with no sound other than the whirring of the projector. Gradually the sepia fades into full colour and we can hear the dialogue of the characters. Mr. Orlando is an Italian journalist on the ship; he looks at the camera and explains that the voyage is a type of funeral, with the aim of dispersing the ashes of Edmea Tetua around the island of Erimo, where she was born. He explains that Edmea Tetua was the greatest singer of all time and had the voice of a goddess.
One morning, the ship's passengers find that there is a large group of Serbian refugees camping out on the deck of the ship. The captain had brought them aboard the previous night. One of the passengers is the Archduke of Herzog (part of Austria-Hungary) and his handlers consider the Serb refugees to be a security threat. Eventually an Austro-Hungarian battleship shows up and demands that the refugees be turned over, presumably to be taken prisoner or enslaved.
At the end, the film takes a bizarre turn into absurdism.
[edit] Cast
- Freddie Jones - Orlando
- Barbara Jefford - Ildebranda Cuffari
- Victor Poletti - Aureliano Fuciletto
- Peter Cellier - Sir Reginald J. Dongby
- Elisa Mainardi - Teresa Valegnani
- Norma West - Lady Violet Dongby
- Paolo Paoloni - Il Maestro Albertini
- Sarah-Jane Varley - Dorotea
- Fiorenzo Serra - Il Granduca
- Pina Bausch - La Principessa Lherimia
- Pasquale Zito - Il Conte di Bassano
- Linda Polan - Ines Ruffo Saltini
- Philip Locke - Il Primo Ministro
- Jonathan Cecil - Ricotin
- Maurice Barrier - Ziloev
- Fred Williams - Sabatino Lepori
- Elizabeth Kaza
- Colin Higgins - Il capo della polizia
- Vittorio Zarfati - Secondo maestro Rubetti
- Umberto Zuanelli - Primo maestro Rubetti
- Claudio Ciocca - Secondo di bordo
- Antonio Vezza - Le capitaine
- Alessandro Partexano - Ufficiale
- Domenico Pertica - Pastore
- Christian Fremont
- Marielle Duvelle
- Helen Stirling
- Janet Suzman - Edmea Tetua
- Ginestra Spinola - La cousine d'Edmea
- Umberto Barone
- Monica Bertolotti
- Danika La Loggia
- Roberto Caporali - Padre di Dorotea
- Franca Maresa - Madre di Dorotea
- Savatore Calabrese
- Johna Mancini
- Filippo Degara
- Francesco Scali
- Cecilia Cerocchi
- Pietro Fumelli
- Franco Angrisano
- Ugo Fangareggi
[edit] Dubbed singing voice
- Mara Zampieri - Ildebranda Cuffari
- Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz - Ines Ruffo Saltini
- Nucci Condò - Teresa Valegnani
- Giovanni Baviglio - Puciletto
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Variety Lights (1950) • The White Sheik (1951) • I Vitelloni (1953) • L'Amore in Città (1953) • La Strada (1954) • Il bidone (1955) • Nights of Cabiria (1957) • La Dolce Vita (1960) • Boccaccio '70 (1962) • 8½ (1963) • Juliet of the Spirits (1965) • Satyricon (1969) • I Clowns (1970) • Roma (1972) • Amarcord (1973) • Fellini's Casanova (1976) • Prova d'orchestra (1979) • City of Women (1980) • And the Ship Sails On (1983) • Ginger and Fred (1986) • Intervista (1987) • La voce della luna (1990) |
