Il prato macchiato di rosso

Il prato macchiato di rosso
Directed by Riccardo Ghione
Produced by
  • Alfredo Chetta
  • Aldo Pascucci[1]
Screenplay by Riccardo Ghione[2]
Story by Riccardo Ghione[2]
Starring
Music by Teo Usuelli[2]
Cinematography Romolo Garroni[2]
Edited by Cleofe Conversi[2]
Production
company
Canguro Cinematografica[1]
Distributed by Drago Film
Release date
  • 2 March 1973 (1973-03-02) (Italy)
Running time
 90 minutes[1]
Country Italy[1]
Box office ₤56.364 million

Il prato macchiato di rosso (lit. The Red-stained lawn[1]) is a 1973 Italian film directed by Riccardo Ghione.[3]

Cast

Style

Italian film critic and historian Roberto Curti described the film as mixing elements from the gothic genre, the thriller and a little bit of science fiction.[1]

Production

Shortly after the release of director Riccardo Ghione's previous film A cuore freddo, Ghione was working on his next film titled Vampiro 2000 which was shot in the village of Fiorenzuola d'Arda.[4] Ghione announced a different film during this period, an adaptation of Il male oscuro, the autobiography by Giuseppe Berto, which never came to fruiition.[5] Vampiro 2000 eventually became retitled as Il pratto macchiato di rosso.[5]

Release

Il pratto macchiato di rosso was distributed theatrically in Italy by Drago Film and had its premiere on 2 March 1973 in Fiorenzuola d'Arda.[1][6] The film grossed a total of 56,364,000 Italian lire domestically on its initial release.[1] According to Curti, after the films release it vanished into obscurity to only be brought back to attention on a home video release around 2017.[6]

Reception

Curti declared that Il prato macchiato di rosso retained a small level of notoriety in the village of Fiorenzuola where the memory of the shooting of the film remained vivid still in 2018.[7]

See also

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Curti 2017, p. 100.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Curti 2017, p. 99.
  3. ↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876059695.
  4. ↑ Curti 2018, p. 77.
  5. 1 2 Curti 2018, p. 78.
  6. 1 2 Curti 2017, p. 102.
  7. ↑ Curti 2018, p. 80.

References

  • Curti, Roberto (2017). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970–1979. McFarland. ISBN 1476629609.
  • Curti, Roberto (2018). Mavericks of Italian Cinema: Eight Unorthodox Filmmakers, 1940s–2000s. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-7242-7.



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