A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Antonioni’s penetrating study of the idle upper class offers stinging observations on spiritual isolation and the many meanings of love. Criterion is proud to present this milestone of film grammar in a double-disc special edition.
| Sandro | Gabriele Ferzetti |
| Claudia | Monica Vitti |
| Anna | Lea Massari |
| Giulia | Dominique Blanchar |
| Anna's father | Renzo Ricci |
| Corrado | James Addams |
| Gloria Perkins | Dorothy De Poliolo |
| Raimondo | Lelio Luttazzi |
| Young Prince | Giovanni Petrucci |
| Patrizia | Esmeralda Ruspoli |
| Director | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Producer | Amato Pennasilico |
| Screenplay | Michelangelo Antonioni, Elio Bartolini and Tonino Guerra |
| Cinematography | Aldo Scavarda |
| Production Design | Piero Poletto |
| Music | Giovanni Fusco |
| Editing | Eraldo Da Roma |
| Assistant director | Jack O'Connell |
| Costume design | Adriana Berselli |
| Sound | Claiudio Maielli |
| Production coordinator | Angelo Corso |
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
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A group of rich Italians is on a cruise off the coast of Sicily when one of their number—a moody, unhappy girl—disappears. Murder, kidnap, accident, suicide? Her boyfriend and her close woman friend search for her, but the search turns into a new love story, and the mystery is never resolved . . .
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