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Italian film producers and the challenge of Soviet co-productions : Franco Cristaldi and the case of the red tent

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Corsi, Barbara (2020) Italian film producers and the challenge of Soviet co-productions : Franco Cristaldi and the case of the red tent. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 40 (1). pp. 84-107. doi:10.1080/01439685.2020.1715598 ISSN 0143-9685.

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Abstract

This article explores the little-known history of Italian-Soviet film productions by means of a close analysis of the production history of one such coproduction, The Red Tent (1969). Produced by Franco Cristaldi’s company Vides and the Russian Mosfilm, and directed by Michail Kalatozov, the film featured an international cast including Peter Finch, Sean Connery and Claudia Cardinale. Centred on the story of Umberto Nobile’s calamitous scientific expedition to the Arctic in 1928, the film was as much a product of the easing of East-West tensions in the Khrushchev era as of the growing networks of collaboration in European and international cinema. Documents from the Cristaldi archive are employed to offer a detailed reconstruction of the film’s production from economic, political, logistical and artistic points of view. The challenges were numerous starting with the need to ensure the cooperation of the still-living Nobile. Filming was interrupted following the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968, but nonetheless it was completed and the film found an international distribution, with the American sale making a crucial contribution to the viability of the project. Although, in contrast to the original intention, no further films were made that followed this production model, The Red Tent constitutes a key example of the creativity shown by Italian producers in forging novel patterns of international production.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Film and Television Studies
Journal or Publication Title: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISSN: 0143-9685
Official Date: 29 January 2020
Dates:
DateEvent
29 January 2020Published
12 November 2019Accepted
Volume: 40
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 84-107
DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2020.1715598
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television on 29/01/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01439685.2020.1715598
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 28 November 2019
Date of first compliant Open Access: 29 July 2021
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
AH/N004221/1 : RFIAA3009[AHRC] Arts and Humanities Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000267
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