The Red Tent (film)

For the miniseries, see The Red Tent (miniseries).
The Red Tent
Soviet billboard theatrical poster of the film
Directed byMikhail Kalatozov
Written byYuri Nagibin
Richard L. Adams
Ennio De Concini
Robert Bolt (uncredited)
Produced byFranco Cristaldi
Victor Freilich
Starring
CinematographyLeonid Kalashnikov
Edited byJohn Shirley
Peter Zinner
Music byEnnio Morricone (international version)
Aleksandr Zatsepin
Distributed byMosfilm
Vides Cinematografica
Empresa Hispanoamericana de Video
Paramount Home Video
Paramount Pictures
Sovexportfilm
Release dates
  • 1969 (1969) (USSR)
  • 23 December 1969 (1969-12-23) (Italy)
  • 29 July 1971 (1971-07-29) (USA)
Running time
158 min (Russian version)
121 min (International version)
CountryUSSR / Italy
LanguageRussian / Italian / English
Budget$10,000,000[1] or $13 million[2]

The Red Tent (Russian: Красная палатка, translit. Krasnaya palatka; Italian: La tenda rossa is a joint Soviet/Italian 1969 adventure drama film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov.

The film is based on the story of the 1928 mission to rescue Umberto Nobile and the other survivors of the crash of the airship Italia. It features Sean Connery as Roald Amundsen and Peter Finch as Nobile. The script was adapted by Yuri Nagibin and Mikhail Kalatozov from Nagibin's novel of the same title. Nagibin couldn't complete the script due to a series of conflicts with the producer, who insisted on expanding the role of his paramour Claudia Cardinale,[3] and it was completed by de Concini and Bolt.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference red was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Collings, Anthony C. (15 January 1969). "Italian Filmmakers invading Russia". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 29.
  3. ^ "Юрий Нагибин в библиотеке А.Белоусенко". Belousenko.com. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  4. ^ "Красная палатка. 1. Два фильма". Vilavi.ru. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  5. ^ "Nagibin, Yu.M. - SovLit.net - Encyclopedia of Soviet Authors". SovLit.net. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  6. ^ "Краткая биография Юрий Нагибин". Peoples.ru. 1994-06-17. Retrieved 2015-08-12.