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The Felling of the Forest (1963)
Directed by Vittorio Cottafavi
Drama · 56m
In the forested slopes surrounding the rural Tuscan village of Tirli, a group of lumberjacks work long hours felling trees in the hopes of making an ample profit. Amongst them, a recently widowed father struggles to overcome the pain of his wife’s death, whilst juggling the fresh financial pressures of raising two motherless children.
Cast
Gian Maria Volonté
Guglielmo
D
Domenico Bartoletti
Fiore
G
Giovanni Bartoletti
Francesco
G
Gildo Toninelli
Germano
C
Cortese Signori
Amedeo
B
Benvenuto Belli
Il "carbonaio"
V
Vittorio Gori
"Un pistoiese"
L
Lisetta Sordi
Zia Lina
M
Maris Olivi
Caterina
R
Rosalba Toninelli
Irma
F
Francesca Francini
Adriana
F
Fulgido Ramazzotti
Il fattorino
Crew
- Director
- Vittorio Cottafavi
- Screenplay
- Giuseppe Lazzari, Marcello Fondato
- Writer
- Carlo Cassola
- Director of Photography
- Eugenio Thellung
- Editor
- Franca Di Lorenzo
Details
- Original title
- Il taglio del bosco
- Release date
- 1963-09-18
- Runtime
- 56m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- IT
- Spoken languages
- Italian
- Countries
- Italy
- Production
- RAI