Il grido
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Michelangelo Antonioni
Steve Cochran
Alida Valli
Betsy Blair
Dorian Gray
Lyn Shaw
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
For 7 years, Aldo, a laborer in a sugar refinery in the town of Goriano, has been living with his mistress, Irma, and their young daughter. Word arrives that Irma's husband has died, and Aldo announces that they will marry immediately and legitimize their child. But Irma rejects him and instead chooses another man. Distraught and disillusioned, Aldo takes his daughter and sets out to find a new life. His wanderings through the Po Valley lead him to three other women: Elvia, a former girl friend, now a forlorn seamstress; Virginia, a widow who runs a roadside service station; and Andreina, a prostitute as lost and desolate as himself. After sending his daughter back to her mother, he continues his search, but, haunted by his memories of Irma, he eventually returns to Goriano. The town is about to be demolished to make way for a jet airfield, and Irma is contentedly living a new and better life. Filled with despair, Aldo climbs to the top of the refinery where he once worked. Irma follows him and sees him plunge to his death.
Director
Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast
Steve Cochran
Alida Valli
Betsy Blair
Dorian Gray
Lyn Shaw
Gabriella Pallotta
Mirna Girardi
Guerrino Campanili
Gaetano Matteucci
Pietro Corvelatti
Pina Boldrini
Crew
Michelangelo Antonioni
Elio Bartolini
Franco Cancellieri
Eraldo Da Roma
Lya De Barberis
Ennio De Concini
Gianni Di Venanzo
Franco Fontana
Giovanni Fusco
Pia Marchesi
Danilo Marciani
Erico Menczer
Ralph Pinto
Vittorio Trentino
Luigi Vanzi
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Notes
Filmed on location in the lower Po Valley and the Po Delta, including Occhiobello, Pontelagoscuro, Stienta, Ferrara, and Ca Venier. Opened in Rome in November 1957. Also known as The Outcry.
Miscellaneous Notes
Shown at Locarno Film Festival July 14, 1957.
Released in United States 2014 (Revivals)
Released in United States January 2000 (Shown in New York City (Anthology Film Archives) as part of program "Kino International Retrospective" January 6-27, 2000.)
Released in United States March 1957 (Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival March 1957.)
Released in United States on Video March 12, 1994
Released in United States 2014
Released in United States January 2000
Released in United States July 14, 1957
Released in United States March 1957
Released in United States on Video March 12, 1994
Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival March 1957.
Released in United States July 14, 1957 (Shown at Locarno Film Festival July 14, 1957.)
