SYNOPSIS: Marcello Mastroianni, as a lonely city transplant, and Maria Schell, as a sheltered girl haunted by a lover’s promise, meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that quickly entangles them in a web of longing and self-delusion. Luchino Visconti’s Le notti bianche, an exquisite adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s “White Nights,” translates this romantic, shattering tale of two restless souls into a ravishing black-and-white dream.
| Mario | Marcello Mastroianni |
| Natalia | Maria Schell |
| Lodger | Jean Marais |
| Prostitute | Clara Calamai |
| Director | Luchino Visconti |
| Producer | Franco Cristaldi |
| Screenplay | Suso Cecchi D’Amico |
| Cinematography | Luchino Visconti and Giuseppe Rotunno |
| From the story by | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Editing | Mario Serandrei |
| Music | Nino Rota |
| Art direction | Mario Chiari |
| Set designer | Enzo Eusepi |
By July 11, 2005
Le notti bianche (White Nights) occupies a central position within Luchino Visconti’s body of work. In appearance at least, it consummates a break with the neorealism of the 1940s and early 1950s and looks Read more »
By August 02, 2010
The great, beloved screenwriter Suso Cecchi D’Amico died this past weekend at the age of ninety-six. A longtime collaborator of Luchino Visconti’s (they’re pictured together above), including Read more »
