Swept Away (1974 film)

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Swept Away
Italian theatrical release poster
Italian	Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto
Directed by	Lina Wertmüller
Written by	Lina Wertmüller
Produced by	Romano Cardarelli
Starring	Giancarlo Giannini Mariangela Melato
Cinematography	Ennio Guarnieri
Edited by	Franco Fraticelli
Music by	Piero Piccioni
Distributed by	Medusa Distribuzione
Release date	19 December 1974 (1974-12-19)
Running time	114 minutes[1]
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
Box office	$6 million (US and Canada)[2] or $1,750,000[3]

Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August (Italian: Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto),^[4] usually shortened to Swept Away_, is a 1974 Italian romantic adventure comedy drama written and directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato. The film follows a wealthy woman whose yachting vacation with friends in the Mediterranean Sea takes an unexpected turn when she and one of the boat's crew are separated from the others and stranded on a desert island. The woman's capitalist beliefs and the man's communist convictions clash, but during their struggle to survive, their social roles are reversed.

Swept Away was released to divided, but largely positive, reviews, and won the 1975 National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Award for Top Foreign Film. A critically and commercially unsuccessful English-language remake starring Madonna and directed by her then-husband Guy Ritchie was released in 2002.