The Mill on the Po

The Mill on the Po
Directed byAlberto Lattuada
Written byFederico Fellini
Tullio Pinelli
Mario Bonfantini
Luigi Comencini
Alberto Lattuada
Carlo Musso
Sergio Romano
Based onThe Mill on the Po by Riccardo Bacchelli
Produced byCarlo Ponti
StarringCarla Del Poggio
Jacques Sernas
Mario Besesti
CinematographyAldo Tonti
Edited byMario Bonotti
Music byIldebrando Pizzetti
Production
company
Distributed byLux Film
Release date
  • 28 September 1949 (1949-09-28)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

The Mill on the Po (Italian: Il mulino del Po) is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring Carla Del Poggio, Jacques Sernas and Mario Besesti.[1][2] It is based on the third part of the novel of the same name by Riccardo Bacchelli.[3][4] It premiered at the 1949 Venice Film Festival. The films was produced and distributed by Lux Film, one of Italy's leading companies of the postwar years. Extensive location shooting took place around Lombardy including at Bagnolo San Vito, Porto Mantovano and Curtatone. The films sets were designed by the art director Luigi Gervasi.

  1. ^ Moliterno, Gino. Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008. p.170
  2. ^ Bayman, Louis. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama. Edinburgh University Press, 2014. p.192-93
  3. ^ Cosulich, Callisto (1985). ": Il mulino del Po". I Film di Alberto Lattuada. Gremese Editore, 1985. ISBN 8876051872.
  4. ^ Chiti, Roberto; Poppi, Roberto; Lancia, Enrico. ": Il mulino del Po". Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.