Blow to the Heart
1983 Italian film by Gianni Amelio
- 1982 (1982)
Blow to the Heart (Italian: Colpire al cuore) is a 1982 Italian drama film directed by Gianni Amelio.[1] The film entered the competition at the 39th Venice Film Festival. Fausto Rossi won a Silver Ribbon and a David di Donatello as best new actor.[2] The film also won the Silver Ribbon for best script.[2] It was described as a "masterful psychological study investigating two profoundly different characters".[3] A teenage son of a university professor discovers his father's secret life and begins keeping his father under surveillance after one of his father's friends dies in a terrorist shoot-out.
Plot
Cast
- Jean-Louis Trintignant as Dario
- Fausto Rossi as Emilio
- Laura Morante as Giulia
- Sonia Gessner as Emilio's mother
- Vanni Corbellini as Sandro Ferrari
- Laura Nucci as Dario's mother
- Matteo Cerami as Matteo
See also
References
External links
- Blow to the Heart at IMDb
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Films directed by Gianni Amelio
- The Little Archimedes (1979, TV)
- Blow to the Heart (1982)
- I ragazzi di via Panisperna (1987)
- Open Doors (1989)
- The Stolen Children (1992)
- Lamerica (1994)
- The Way We Laughed (1998)
- The Keys to the House (2004)
- The Missing Star (2006)
- The First Man (2011)
- L'intrepido (2013)
- Tenderness (2017)
- Hammamet (2020)
- Lord of the Ants (2022)
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