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The city of a hundred horizons offers unique views that have more than once been the ideal settings and subjects of films for the big screen. Many important films have been shot in Asolo, such as:
IL DISCO VOLANTE
director Tinto Brass, 1964, with Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano, Monica Vitti
Plot
A flying saucer glides over a village and a police sergeant has to question various witnesses including a peasant with an enormous family who manages to capture the Martian and sells him to her boss, the Count. The Count's mother then kills the alien and is locked up in a lunatic asylum. The interrogation convinces the sergeant that nothing has happened and that the witnesses are nothing by visionaries. Asolo and surroundings as the environmentally peaceful setting for a grotesque story conceived and written by Belluno born Rodolfo Sonego. Alberto Sordi plays four people at the same time including the sergeant. (from Veneto in Film by Piero Zanotto)
A PLACE FOR LOVERS
director Vittorio De Sica, 1969 with Marcello Mastroianni and Faye Dunaway.
Plot
After a first chance meeting at an airport, an Italian engineer, Valerio, and a beautiful American woman, Giulia, meet again and spend a few days together at a villa in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Valerio does not know that the woman is soon to die of an incurable disease. He learns the truth suddenly from a friend of Giulia's who has come to fetch her and persuade her to have an operation. When Valerio finds out about her terrible destiny, Giulia, who does not want pity, is tempted to commit suicide. The man however manages to persuade her not to do it: they will stay together until death, which is not certain anyway.
DREAMED OF AFRICA
director Hugh Hudson 1999, with Kim Basinger
Plot
Between breathtaking landscapes and colours, the dangers of nature and the destiny of a woman (Kuki) who after chasing a dream all her life, Africa, sees it come true in rediscovering herself and responding to the roar of the savannah and the fury of the wind with courage.
RIPLEY'S GAME
director Liliana Cavani, 200, with John Malkovich
Plot
From the novel "The American Friend" by Patricia Highsmith.
A quiet honest family man with terminal cancer is enticed by Ripley into a spiral of violence and murders to the point of triggering a war between rival gangs of dangerous gangsters.
BLACK ANGEL
director Tinto Brass 2001 with Anna Galiena, Gabriel Garko
Plot
Taken from the story by Camillo Boito "Senso".
In a real and metaphorical dawn from the end of the world, Livia Mazzoni, the attractive wife of a bigwig in the Ministry of Popular Culture, has to go to Venice to meet up with her lover Helmut Schultz, a Lieutenant in the Wehrmacht, beautiful and damned like a pagan god with whom she enjoys a sizzling love story. But a surprise is awaiting her on her arrival in Venice.
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