And the Ship Sails On (1983) on Netflix
In July 1914 the cruise ship Gloria N. leaves Naples to scatter the ashes of the opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, her birthplace. Orlando, a journalist, chronicles the voyage.
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Plot summary
Aboard the Gloria N., which sails from Naples in July 1914, are the friends and admirers of Edmea Tetua, the opera singer whose ashes the voyage will scatter near Erimo, the island where she was born. The journalist Orlando narrates the crossing, moving among the soprano Ildebranda Cuffari, orchestra directors, voice teachers, actors, counts and princesses. The Count of Bassano keeps his cabin as a shrine to Tetua's memory, and a rhinoceros, neglected by the crew, is hauled up from the hold, washed and given fresh hay. On the third day the passengers discover shipwrecked Serbians camped on deck, refugees who fled the assassination at Sarajevo and were brought aboard the previous night. The Grand Duke of Harzock takes them for terrorists.
Cast
- Sarah-Jane Varleyas Dorotea
- Fiorenzo Serraas Il Granduca
- Pasquale Zitoas Il Conte di Bassano
- Linda Polanas Ines Ruffo Saltini
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about And the Ship Sails On (1983)
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- In a reverse tracking shot, Fellini revealed the film's behind-the-scenes machinery: giant hydraulic jacks built by set designer Dante Ferretti to create the ship's rolling sea movements, acres of plastic ocean, and technicians burning naphthalene for the smoke of the disaster effect.
