The Condemned of Altona (film)

The Condemned of Altona
Film poster
Directed byVittorio De Sica
Written byJean-Paul Sartre (play)
Abby Mann
Cesare Zavattini
Produced byCarlo Ponti
StarringSophia Loren
Maximilian Schell
CinematographyRoberto Gerardi
Music byNino Rota
Franco Ferrara
Distributed byTitanus (Italy)
Release date
  • 30 October 1962 (1962-10-30)
Running time
114 minutes
CountriesItaly
France
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.1 million (US/ Canada)[1][2]

The Condemned of Altona (Italian: I sequestrati di Altona) is a 1962 Italian-French drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It is based on the play of the same name by Jean-Paul Sartre.[3] For this film Vittorio De Sica won the Academy of Italian Cinema's David di Donatello award for Best Director.[4]

  1. ^ "Top Rental Features of 1963", Variety, 8 January 1964 p 71. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.
  2. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History, Scarecrow Press, 1989 p229
  3. ^ Mark Deming (2012). "The Condemned of Altona". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
  4. ^ Enrico Lancia (1998). I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 8877422211.