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Che? (1972)
Country of Origin: Italy
/France/West Germany
Year of Production: 1972
Running Times: 108 mins 115 mins
Format: Technicolor 35mm Todd-AO 35
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Compagnia Cinematografica Champion/Dieter
Geissler Filmproduktion/Les Films Concordia
Producer: Carlo Ponti
SCRIPT
Script: Gérard Brach, Roman
Polanski
DIRECTION
Director: Roman Polanski
2nd Unit Director: Hercules Bellville
Assistant Director: Tony Brandt
PHOTOGRAPHY
Directors of Photography: Marcello Gatti, Giuseppe Ruzzolini
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Alastair McIntyre
MUSIC
Music: Claudio Gizzi; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Ludwig
van Beethoven
SOUND
Sound Mixer: Bernard Bats
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Giuseppe Banchelli
Costume Designer: Adriana Berselli
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Aurelio Crugnola
Art Director: Franco Fumagalli
CAST
Marcello Mastroianni (Alex)
Sydne Rome (Nancy)
Hugh Griffith (Joseph Noblart)
Guido Alberti (priest)
Gianfranco Piacentini (Tony)
Carlo Delle Piane
Mario Bussolino
Henning Schlüter (Catone)
Christiane Barry (dresser)
Pietro Tordi
Nerina Montagnani
Mogens von Gadow, Dieter Hallervorden (Germans)
Elisabeth Witte (nurse)
John Karlsen (Edward)
Livio Galassi
Alvaro Vitali
Luigi Bonos
Carla Mancini
Romolo Valli (Giovanni)
Franco Pesci
Cicely Browne (Ruth - uncredited)
Renee Langer (naked girl with hat - uncredited)
Richard McNamara (Charlie - uncredited)
Roger Middleton (Jimmy - uncredited)
Birgitta Nilsson (naked girl - uncredited)
Roman Polanski
(Mosquito - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
A young American woman is on a trip to Italy
when she stumbles across a very strange Mediterranean villa. The longer
she stays, the more she begins to doubt that what she's seeing
is real and she enters a surreal world straight out of Alice in Wonderland.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: AVCO Embassy Pictures
Germany
Theatrical Distributor: VPS Film-Entertainment GmbH
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Argentina
Rating: 16
Finland
Rating: K-16
Norway
Rating: 18
Sweden
Rating: 15
USA
Rating: X (1972); R (1976)
TIMELINE
1972
December
25: West Germany – theatrical release
1973
October
15: Sweden – theatrical release
1974
September
20: Finland – theatrical release
POSTER TAGS
The kinkiest caper of the year!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Co? - Polish title
Diary of Forbidden Dreams – US title
Mikä? - Finnish title
¿Qué? - Argentinian/Venezuelan title
Quoi? - French title
Was? - West German title
What? – UK/USA title
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Cineforum no.120 (February 1973) pp.181-188 (Italy)
article
CinemaTV Today no.10082 (11 May 1974) p.36 (UK)
review
Films and Filming vol.20 no.9 (June 1974) p.45 (UK)
review
Filmwoche no.45 (23 August 1972) p.10 (West Germany)
credits
Hollywood Reporter vol.228 no.22 (10 October 1973)
p.8 (USA)
review
Image et Son no.272 (May 1973) pp.119-120 (France)
review
Jeune Cinéma no.71 (June 1973) pp.41-43 (France)
review
Kino vol.23 no.6 (June 1989) pp.19-22 (Poland)
article
Monogram bo.6 (October 1975) pp.22-25 (UK)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.41 no.484 (May 1974) pp.94-95
(UK)
credits, synopsis, review
Movietone News no.62-63 (29 December 1979) p.46
(USA)
review
Variety 10 January 1973 p.18 (USA)
credits, review KEYWORDS
sex, rape, surrealism, villas
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