FILE FILM

UOMINI E NO
DIRECTION: Valentino Orsini
Drawn from the novel of E.Vittorini

Original title Uomini e no
Year 1980
Running time 105'
Nationality Italy
Genre War drama
Production Ager Cinematografica / RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana (Rete 2)
DIRECTION VALENTINO ORSINI
Subject Drawn from the homonym novel of Elio Vittorini
Screen-play Valentino Orsini and Forliero Rosati
 CAST

Flavio Bucci Enne 2
Monica Guerritore Berta
Ivana Monti Lorena
Massimo Foschi El Paso
Renato Scarpa Cane Nero
Cristina Grado
Mario Granato
Massimo Miriani
Giuseppe Misiti
Claudio Raimondo
Francesco Salvi (I)
Michele Soavi
Franco Trevisi

PLOT, CRITIQUE and NOTES

The personal circumstances of the protagonists and the political and military struggle against the Nazi, are melt in the cold Milan of the 1944 winter: a member of the GAP (Bucci), in full sentimental crisis, fights valiantly against the men of Black Dog (Scarpa), the fascist leader that has exterminated his companions. Drawn by the homonym novel of Elio vittorini, adapted by the director, by the producer Giubani G. De Negri and by Forliero Rosati, it is a film uneven in its realization (penalized by a certain straits of budget) and in the acting, with a cast not perfectly adherent ot the parts. (P. Mereghetti “Dizionario dei film 1998”, translated by Alice Castoldi)