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The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Year:

1970

Duration:

139 min

Genres:

Comedy | Drama | War

IMDB rate:

7.5

Director:

Stanley Kramer

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 6 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1970-02-27

Filming Locations: Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Cast

Actor

Character

Giancarlo Giannini

Anthony Quinn

Bombolini

Anna Magnani

Rosa

Virna Lisi

Caterina

Hardy Krüger

Capt. von Prum

Sergio Franchi

Tufa

Renato Rascel

Babbaluche

Patrizia Valturri

Angela

Eduardo Ciannelli

Luigi

Leopoldo Trieste

Vittorini

Gigi Ballista

Padre Polenta

Quinto Parmeggiani

Copa

Carlo Caprioli

Giovanni Pietrosanto

Francesco Mulé

Francucci

Wolfgang Jansen

Sgt. Zopf

Aldo De Carellis

Old Vines

Marco Tulli

Mazzola

Chris Anders

Cpl. Heinsick

Peter Kuiper

Sgt. Traub

Dieter Wilken

Hans

Karl-Otto Alberty

Otto

Luigi Bonos

Benedetti

Clelia Matania

Pippo Lauricella

Pulci

Carlo Capannelle

Capoferro

Renato Chiantoni

Bracolini

Pino Ferrara

Dr. Bara

Curt Lowens

Col. Scheer

Tim Donnelly

Holtzmann

Valentina Cortese

Gabriella (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Actor Anthony Quinn was cast in this Euro-set movie based on his well-known screen persona from having starred in Zorba the Greek (1964). However, this time, Quinn was not Zorba the Greek, but Bombolini the Italian.

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According to the film, the exact estimate number of bottles of wine that the township of Santa Vittoria had was 1,317,000. Publicity and word of mouth for the picture frequently approximated this down to one million bottles of wine. However, one of the film's main movie posters stated that there were actually 1,184,611 bottles of wine.

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The real-life Italian town of Santa Vittoria could not be used for this movie because it had become too modernized since the Second World War period in which the film's story was set. A total of 169 Italian towns were location scouted until the right one was found: Anticoli Corrado. This is a municipality in the Province of Rome in the wider in region of Latium. The commune is situated about 40 km north-east of Rome.

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Quotes

Priest: [Bombolini wants the priest to pray for the rain to stop while the villagers move the wine] Nobody ever prays for sun, they only pray for rain. Babbaluche: In Noah's ark people prayed for rain?

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Italo Bombolini: "Mathematically"! If I only had a mind like his. *Math-ay-mat-tee-cally*!

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Italo Bombolini: It's nice to have a hot meal before you die.

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