Traffic Jam (film)
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| Directed by | Luigi Comencini |
| Produced by | Anna Maria Clementelli Silvio Clementelli Michael Fengler |
| Written by | Luigi Comencini Ruggero Maccari Bernardino Zapponi |
| Starring | Annie Girardot |
| Music by | Fiorenzo Carpi |
| Cinematography | Ennio Guarnieri |
| Edited by | Nino Baragli |
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| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Traffic Jam (Italian: L'ingorgo - Una storia impossibile ) is a 1979 Italian satirical comedy-drama film directed by Luigi Comencini.[1] It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
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Plot
In a main thoroughfare on the outskirts of Rome, thousands of motorists are stuck in terrible traffic jam for twenty-four hours. In a stretch of road there is a variety of characters whose behaviour becomes strange. There is a selfish and hypocritical entrepreneur in a luxury car; a young hippie girl harassed and then raped by some dandies and a family from Naples on the way to Rome to abort their daughter. There is also an old couple that argues constantly; a patient that dies in the ambulance; an old actor staying in a small country house near the road; a female globetrotter who is hitch-hiking to the stopped cars and some young members of Far Left Wing among others. The day the traffic jam clears, the entrepreneur hires the girl from Naples for a record company in exchange for a sexual service. The girl is raped and then comforted by a man who wants to avenge her but then gives up. The rapists leave quietly once more.
Cast
- Annie Girardot as Irene
- Fernando Rey as Carlo
- Miou-Miou as Angela
- Gérard Depardieu as Franco
- Ugo Tognazzi as Professor
- Marcello Mastroianni as Marco Montefoschi
- Stefania Sandrelli as Teresa
- Alberto Sordi as De Benedetti
- Orazio Orlando as Ferreri
- Gianni Cavina as Pompeo
- Harry Baer as Mario
- Ángela Molina as Martina
- Ciccio Ingrassia as The Dying Man
- Patrick Dewaere as Young man
- Giovannella Grifeo as Germana
- José Sacristán as The Priest
References
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Traffic Jam at IMDb
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