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I Vinti (1953)

I Vinti poster
Original title
I vinti
Directed by
Michelangelo Antonioni
Genre
drama film, anthology film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
+16
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 41 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

The film is an anthology of three stories, each set in a different European country. In each story, a young person commits a violent crime like murder or fraud.

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What happens

I vinti (English: The Vanquished) is a 1953 drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. An anthology film, it consists of three separate stories in three different countries, all with the common theme of youths who commit murders. In the French story, set in Paris, two schoolboys decide to kill a classmate for his money. In the Italian story, set in Rome, a university student who is involved in smuggling cigarettes shoots a man during a police raid. In the English story, set in London, a young unemployed man says he has found the body of a woman and tries to sell his story to the press. The film was a project of Film Constellation to Suso Cecchi d'Amico, who proposed Antonioni as director, and it screened at the 1953 Venice Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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