SYNOPSIS: Michelangelo Antonioni’s Identification of a Woman is a body- and soul-baring voyage into one man’s artistic and erotic consciousness. After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women: at the same time, he searches for the right subject and actress for his next film. This spellbinding antiromance was a late-career coup for the legendary Italian filmmaker, and is renowned for its sexual explicitness and an extended scene on a fog-enshrouded highway that stands with the director’s greatest set pieces.
| Niccolò | Tomas Milian |
| Mavi | Daniela Silverio |
| Ida | Christine Boisson |
| Swimmer | Lara Wendel |
| Carla | Veronica Lazar |
| Nadia | Enrica Fico |
| Mavi’s sister | Sandra Monteleoni |
| Mario | Marcel Bozzuffi |
| Gorilla | Gianpaolo Saccarola |
| Mavi’s father | Alessandro Ruspoli |
| Lucio | Itaco Nardulli |
| Director | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Executive producer | Alessandro von Normann |
| Producer | Giorgio Nocella and Antonio Macrì |
| Screenplay | Michelangelo Antonioni and Gérard Brach |
| In collaboration with | Tonino Guerra |
| Director of photography | Carlo Di Palma |
| Production design | Andrea Crisanti |
| Production manager | Franco Ballati |
| Music | John Foxx |
| Set decorator | Massimo Tavazzi |
| Costumes | Paola Comencini |
By October 24, 2011
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