Four Steps in the Clouds | |
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Directed by | Alessandro Blasetti |
Written by | Giuseppe Amato Alessandro Blasetti Aldo De Benedetti Piero Tellini Cesare Zavattini |
Produced by | Giuseppe Amato |
Starring | Gino Cervi Adriana Benetti |
Cinematography | Václav Vích |
Music by | Alessandro Cicognini |
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Distributed by | ENIC |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Four Steps in the Clouds (Italian: Quattro passi fra le nuvole) is a 1942 Italian comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Alessandro Blasetti, starring Gino Cervi and Adriana Benetti. It tells the story of a married man who agrees to act as the husband of a young pregnant woman who has been abandoned by her boyfriend. Aesthetically, it is close to Italian neorealism. It was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by Virgilio Marchi.
In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[1]
It was nominated for BAFTA as Best Film from any Source. The movie was remade several times, including The Virtuous Bigamist in 1956 and as A Walk in the Clouds in 1995.