The Possessed (1965 film)

The Possessed (Italian: La donna del lago, lit. 'The Lady of the Lake') is a 1965 Italian mystery film written and directed by Luigi Bazzoni and Franco Rossellini and starring Peter Baldwin, Virna Lisi and Philippe Leroy. It is based on the novel La donna del lago by Giovanni Comisso.

The Possessed
Directed by
Produced byManolo Bolognini[1]
Screenplay by
Based onLa donna del lago
by Giovanni Comisso
Starring
Music byRenzo Rossellini[1]
CinematographyLeonida Barboni[1]
Edited byNino Baragli[1]
Production
companies
  • B.R.C. Produzione Film
  • Istituto L.U.C.E.[2]
Distributed byTelexport[3]
Release date
  • July 24, 1965 (1965-07-24) (Locarno Festival)
  • August 14, 1965 (1965-08-14) (Italy)
Running time
90 minutes[2]
CountryItaly[2]
Box office£100.116 million[4]

Summary

A visitor arrives in a small Italian village looking for a woman. Residents tell him that she committed suicide but there's more to the mystery than they're letting on.

Cast

Production

The Possessed was based on the 1962 novel La donna del lago by Giovanni Comisso.[5] Giulio Questi was hired to write the screenplay.[6] Along with directors Luigi Bazzoni and Franco Rosselini, a fourth uncredited writer was added to work on the film: Ernesto Gastaldi.[6] For their contributions to the script, Gastaldi, Bazzoni, and Rosselini received 700,000, 500,000 and 250,000 Italian lire respectively.[6] Questi received the highest pay, earning 3 million lire.[6][7]

Release

The Possessed premiered at the Swiss Locarno Festival on 24 July 1965.[4] It was released in Italy on 14 August 1965, where it was distributed by Telexport,[3] a minor distribution company that only released the film in a limited area in Italy.[4] The film grossed 100,116,000 Italian lire domestically.[4]

References
  1. "Cast and crew". The Possessed (booklet). Arrow Video. 2018. p. 5. FCD1850 / AV183.
  2. "Donna del Lago, La (The Possessed), Italy, 1965". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 33 no. 394. British Film Institute. November 1966. p. 170.
  3. "La donna del lago (1965)". Archivio del Cinema Italiano On-Line.
  4. Ehrenreich 2018, p. 17.
  5. Ehrenreich 2018, p. 8.
  6. Ehrenreich 2018, p. 9.
  7. Ehrenreich 2018, p. 10.

Sources
  • Ehrenreich, Andreas (2018). "The Production of The Possessed". The Possessed (booklet). Arrow Video. FCD1850 / AV183.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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