Story of a Love Affair (1950) on Netflix
Paola, married to the wealthy Enrico Fontana, is being investigated by a detective her husband hired. Her former lover Guido Garroni arrives in Milan, and the two meet again after seven years.
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Plot summary
Enrico Fontana, a wealthy industrialist in Milan, finds old photographs of his wife Paola and hires a detective agency to learn about her life before their marriage. Carloni travels to Ferrara, where Paola grew up, and learns that her close friend Giovanna Carlini died in a fall down an elevator shaft a few days before her wedding to Guido Garroni, a local boy Paola had also been involved with. Matilde, another friend, refuses to help and writes to Guido, warning him that someone is asking questions. Guido comes to Milan and meets Paola after seven years, their old attraction returns, and Carloni keeps digging into the accident.
Cast
- Gino Rossias L'investigatore Carloni
- Marika Rowskyas Joy - la mannequin
- Ferdinando Sarmias Enrico Fontana
- Nardo Rimediotti
- Renato Burrini
- Vittorio Manfrinoas Algardi
- Rosi Mirafioreas La cameriera del bar(Rosi Mirafiori)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Story of a Love Affair (1950)
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- On a bad day shooting the film, Lucia Bosè broke character and laughed after 40 takes at assistant director Citto Maselli's joke to ease tension; Michelangelo Antonioni walked over in a fury and slapped her in front of everyone. She kept her temper, composed herself and asked to keep filming.
- Lucia Bosè, Miss Italy 1947, met Michelangelo Antonioni at Luchino Visconti's house, where Visconti recommended the nineteen-year-old for the lead. Antonioni, then hunting for a female lead, doubted her maturity but cast her after an audition.
- In 2008, Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage placed the film on its list of 100 Italian films to be saved, a roster of films said to have changed the country's collective memory between 1942 and 1978.
- Antonioni's camera pans a street corner in Ferrara, his native city, that he would film again forty-five years later in Beyond the Clouds.
