Anna (1951 film)
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| Directed by | Alberto Lattuada |
| Produced by |
Dino De Laurentiis Carlo Ponti |
| Written by |
Giuseppe Berto Franco Brusati Ivo Perilli Dino Risi Rodolfo Sonego |
| Starring |
Silvana Mangano Raf Vallone Vittorio Gassman Gaby Morlay Patrizia Mangano |
| Music by | Nino Rota |
| Cinematography | Otello Martelli |
| Edited by | Gabriele Varriale |
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Release date
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20 December 1951 |
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Running time
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107 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Anna is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who becomes a nun; Raf Vallone as Andrea, the rich man who loves her; and Vittorio Gassman as Vittorio, the wicked waiter who sets Anna on a dangerous path.
Silvana Mangano's real sister, Patrizia Mangano, acts as Anna's sister in the film. Sophia Loren has a small uncredited role as a nightclub assistant. Future film directors Franco Brusati and Dino Risi cowrote the script.
The film features the songs Non Dimenticar and El Negro Zumbón, a samba popularised in the West as "Anna", and recorded most recently by Pink Martini.
A man (Vallone) suffers a car accident. He's taken to hospital, where Sister Anna (Mangano) takes care of him. The man is the reason Anna became a nun. She remembers the days she was leading a life of sin as a night club singer.
Anna is one of the greatest successes of Italian cinema. El Negro Zumbón became a classic in Italy and Spain. Nanni Moretti paid a tribute in Dear Diary, in which the song is shown on a TV, and the opening of the song is featured in Cinema Paradiso.
In the original Italian version, the voices of many actors in the film are dubbed:
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