Anonimo Venziano is a 1970

1970 in film

The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 9 - Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, therefore ending his career....

 Italian

Italy

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 award winning drama

Drama

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 film

Film

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 written and directed by the famous Italian actor Enrico Maria Salerno

Enrico Maria Salerno

Enrico Maria Salerno was an Italian theatre & film actor, also a film director. He was also the voice of Clint Eastwood in the Italian version of Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy films, and the voice of Christ in The Gospel According to St...

 on his debut as film director. It starred American

United States

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 Tony Musante

Tony Musante

Anthony Peter Musante is an American actor.Musante was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the son of Natalie Anne , a school teacher, and Anthony Peter Musante, an accountant. He attended Oberlin College and Northwestern University.Musante has acted in numerous feature films, in the United States...

 and Brazil

Brazil

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ian beauty Florinda Bolkan

Florinda Bolkan

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The film had a great success, specially for its romanticism and its score, composed by Stelvio Cipriani

Stelvio Cipriani

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In 1970 Frida Boccara

Frida Boccara

Frida Boccara was a French singer.Frida Boccara was born in Casablanca, Morocco. She submitted the song "Autrefois" to the French Eurovision Song Contest selection panel in 1964 but she was unsuccessful...

 recorded the song "Venise Va Mourir" with the central theme of the film (French Version, Lyrics written by Eddy Marnay

Eddy Marnay

Eddy Marnay was a French songwriter. In his career, he wrote more than 100 songs, including works for Édith Piaf and Céline Dion. He also wrote the title song for Charlie Chaplin's 1957 film A King in New York....

) and later performed it at the Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival

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Tony Renis recorded the song "Anonimo veneziano" (English Version and Italian Version, 1970) and "Venise Va Mourir" (1971, French Version). Many singers also sung this song: Sergio Denis

Sergio Denis

Héctor Omar Hoffmann, better known as Sergio Denis is an Argentine singer-songwriter and occasional actor .- Biography :...

 (1971), Fred Bongusto

Fred Bongusto

Alfredo Bongusto , known by his stage name Fred Bongusto, is an Italian light music singer and songwriter who was very popular in the 1960s and 1970s.-Career history:...

 (1971), Ornella Vanoni

Ornella Vanoni

Ornella Vanoni, OMRI is one of the most credited pop singers of Italy. She is known for her sophisticated pop style.-Artistic career:...

 (1971), Nana Mouskouri

Nana Mouskouri

Nana Mouskouri , born Ioánna Moúschouri on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece, is a Greek singer who has sold about 300 million records worldwide in a career spanning over five decades, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She was known as Nána to her friends and...

 (as "To Be The One You Love", 1973)and other.

Plot

A Venetian musician is affected by an incurable disease. He arranges to meet his ex-wife, who is now living with another man in another city, but does not tell her about his condition. They walk across the streets and channels of Venice. They remember the happy times when they lived together, she in blissful ignorance of his terminal illness. He has to play a classic concert piece, recently found but with no known composer, the 'anonymous venetian' in a concert hall. She finally realizes that she is still in love with him.

Awards

• David di Donatello
  David di Donatello
  David di Donatello, named after Donatello's David, is a movie award assigned each year for cinematic performances and production by Ente David di Donatello, part of Accademia del Cinema Italiano. It is the Italian equivalent to the Academy Award. There are 24 categories as of 2006.- History :The...
  
  : Best Actress (Florinda Bolkan), Special David to Enrico Maria Salerno.
• Nastro d'Argento
  Nastro d'Argento
  The Nastro d'Argento is a movie award assigned each year, since 1946, for cinematic performances and production by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics...
  
  : Best Cinematography in Color (Marcello Gatti), Best Score (Stelvio Cipriani).

External links

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