Cappotto, Il (1952)
Overcoat, The
Director: Alberto Lattuada - Story: from the short-story Il cappotto (1842) of Nikolaj Vasil'evic Gogol' - Screenplay: Giordano Corsi, Enzo Curreli, Alberto Lattuada - Director of photography: Mario Montuori - Music: Felice Lattuada - Film editor: Eraldo Da Roma (Eraldo Judiconi) - Production design: Gianni Polidori – Costume design: Dario Cecchi -Production: Antonio Ansaldo Patti and Enzo Currelli for FaroFilm - Country: Italy - Running Time: 118’
Cast:Renato Rascel (Carmine De Carmine), Yvonne Sanson (Caterina), Giulio Stival (Mayor), Antonella Lualdi (Vittoria), Ettore G. Mattia (Secretary general)
The film:
"The social controversy, [...] basic theme of the director Lattuada in that period, is the supporting motif of Il cappotto, that brings together the satire of the bureaucracy with the one of the power, the denunciation of the misery and the political intrigues, the despair of the lower classes defending their dignity and the indifference of the social power elite, that oppress the people who can’t or don’t have the means to defend themselves. The representation of the social injustice has rarely been so hard, strong and incompatible in the Italian postwar cinema."
[Il cappotto di Alberto Lattuada: la storia, lo stile, il senso, Lino Miccichè (curated by), Associazione Philip Morris Progetto Cinema, Roma / Museo Nazionale del cinema, Lindau, Torino, 1995, p.33.]
The film restoration:
The restoration of Il cappotto by Alberto Lattuada was based on the original negative which is conserved on thirteen reels. The negative was in poor condition due to wear and tear; it was scratched, with mechanical damage and traces of dirt. Missing frames had been substituted by transparent film and the film was wavy in places. The negative was repaired, cleaned and integrated with a dupe negative created by an inflammable wash of the era to substitute the missing frames and the wavy portions. The film was passed through an Analyser and printed, using the wetgate option, to eliminate small scratches and streaks. Since the negative had been shot with film of a different brand, the exposure was very complex in order to valorize the characteristics of each type of film and to obtain an elaborate photographic result. Positive prints were then made from the negative. A volume about the film, curated by Lino Micicché, was published on the occasion of the restoration.
The restoration was conducted by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino with Philip Morris Progetto Cinema.
The restoration was carried out in 1995 at the CineChimica laboratory.
The Minerva RaroVideo Group published a DVD of the restored film.
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