2019 - Dopo la caduta di New York (1983)

Country of Origin: An Italian - French co-production
Year of Production: 1983
Running Times: 89 mins (Germany) 95 mins (France, Italy, USA)
Length: 2628 metres
Format:
Colour Format: Telecolor
Ratio:
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Medusa Produzione and Luciano Martino present   Nuova Dania Cinematografica / Medusa Distribuzione / Les Films du Griffon
Copyright: © 1983 Nuova Dania Cinematografica / Medusa Distribuzione / Les Films du Griffon
Created By: Luciano Martino
Production Organizer: Sergio Borelli
Unit Manager: Roberto De Laurentis

SCRIPT
Screenplay by: Julian Berry, Martin Dolman (real name: Sergio Martino), Gabriel Rossini
Story by: Julian Berry, Martin Dolman (real name: Sergio Martino)

DIRECTION
Directed by: Martin Dolman (real name: Sergio Martino)
Assistant Directors: Massimo Manasse, Alain Sens Cazenave
Dialogue Director: Peter Fernandez

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Giancarlo Ferrando
Cameraman: Enrico Lucidi
Assistant Cameraman: Bruno Cascio
Assistant Operator: Teresa Negrozio
Stills Photographer: Francesco Narducci
Color by: Telecolor

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Eugenio Alabiso
Cutting Room Assistant: Lorenzo Costantini

MUSIC
Original Music by: Oliver Onions (real names: Guido De Angelis, Maurizio De Angelis)
Music Copyright: Cabum

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Roberto Petrozzi
Boom Operator: Raffaele De Luca
Sound Effects: Studio Sound
Recording Facilities: Sound Shop, New York

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make-up: Fabrizio Sforza, Gino Tamagnini
Hairstylist: Giancarlo Marin
Costumes by: Adriana Spadaro

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Paolo Ricci

VISUAL EFFECTS
Truke (Titles): Studio 4

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Antonello Geleng
Set Dressings: Giacomo Calo' Carducci
Properties: Adriano Tiberi, Angeluccio Maccarinelli

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Donatella Botti
Administration: Leonardo Curreri
Production Assistants: Antonio Sarago', Colette Guedon

LOCATIONS
Interiors Filmed at: R.P.A. Elios - De Paolis

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Nazzareno Cardinali
Acrobatic Choreography: Riccardo Petrazzi

CAST
With
Michael Sopkiw (Parsifal)
Valentine Monnier (Giara)
Anna Kanakis (Eurac Officer)
Roman Geer (real name: Romano Puppo) (Ratchet)
Vincent Scalondro (Bronx)
Louis Ecclesia (Shorty)
Edmund Purdom (President of PAN)
Serge Feuillard (Eurac commander)
Tiziana Fibi
Haruhiko Yamanouchi (Rat Eater King)
Alessandra Tani
Jacques Stany (Eurac soldier)
Siriana Hernandez
Tony Aschi
Franco Mazzieri (race announcer)

With special guest star
George Eastman (real name: Luigi Montefiore) as "Big Ape"
Giovanni Cianfriglia (Panther (uncredited))
Luciano Pigozzi (old street vagrant (uncredited))
Angelo Ragusa (flamethrower mercenary (uncredited))

PLOT SUMMARY

In the aftermath of a nuclear war, what's left of North American society has split into two rival factions, the evil Eurac and the Federation who are dedicated to overthrowing them. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to enter the ruins of Eurac controlled New York to track down the last woman on Earth capable of bearing a child.

CAPSULE REVIEW

The best of the Italian Escape From New York (1981) / Mad Max (1979) rip-offs, 2019 is dumb but unpretensious fun, with surprisingly ggod production values and some imaginative variations on the blueprints created by its inspirations. On the down side, the acting is as poor as you'd expect and some idiot let "Olive Onions" back in a recording studio again.Still worth a look though, if only for Luigi Montefiore's over-the-top performance as Big Ape.

Italy
Video Distributor: Magnum 3B

UK
Video Distributor: AVR

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Almi Pictures
Video Distributors: Vestron; Front Row Video

Norway
Rating: 18

UK
Rating: 18

USA
Rating: R

TIMELINE

1983
September
1: Italy - passed by the ratings board
2: Italy - theatrical release

October
21: West Germany - theatrical release

1984
January
11: France - theatrical release

1988
January
22: UK - video release (AVR)

2001
June
7: USA - video release (Front Row Video)

2019: After the Fall of New York - English language title
2019 apres la chute de New York - French title
2019, tras la caída de Nueva York - Spanish title
After the Fall of New York - US title
Duemillediciannove - French title
Fireflash - German video title
Fireflash - Der Tag nach dem Ende - German video title
New Yorkin tuhon jälkeen vuonna 2019 - Finnish title

LINKS

SEE ALSO
Escape From New York (1981)
Mad Max (1979)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Diabolik no.1 p.37 (UK)
review

Video the Magazine March 1988 p.44 (UK)
review

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

post apocalypse, the future, cities, new york, infertility, rape, cyborgs, spaceships, ruined cities, mercenaries

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008