THE ENGAGEMENT
by Ermanno Olmi
synopsis
In the industrial North, Giovanni is a skilled factory worker offered a promotion if he'll go to Sicily for 18 months to assist in a new department. His impending absence strains his already nearly wordless relationship with Liliana, his fiancée. They meet regularly at a dance hall and sometimes go riding on his motorcycle. We watch him arrive in Sicily, walk the town, live in a hotel, find lodgings, work, and participate in local events. It's a solitary, melancholy life. In his mind's eye he thinks about Liliana. He hasn't been entirely faithful. There's pain and detachment in her eyes. Across this distance, can anything bring about a breakthrough? Do they have a future?
original title: | I fidanzati |
country: | Italy |
year: | 1963 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Ermanno Olmi |
film run: | 77' |
release date: | FR 16/05/1963, IT 16/05/1963, UK 10/1963, SE 03/01/1964, HU 26/11/1964, DK 23/11/1965, NL 10/03/1966, DE 04/03/1968, CZ 01/04/2005, GR 05/11/2015 |
screenplay: | Ermanno Olmi |
cast: | Anna Canzi, Carlo Cabrini |
cinematography by: | Lamberto Caimi |
film editing: | Carla Colombo |
producer: | Goffredo Lombardo |