The Red Tent (film)
| The Red Tent | |
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Soviet billboard theatrical poster of the film
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| Directed by | Mikhail Kalatozov |
| Produced by |
Franco Cristaldi Victor Freilich |
| Written by |
Yuri Nagibin Richard L. Adams Ennio De Concini Robert Bolt (uncredited) |
| Starring | |
| Music by |
Ennio Morricone (international version) Aleksandr Zatsepin |
| Cinematography | Leonid Kalashnikov |
| Edited by |
John Shirley Peter Zinner |
| Distributed by |
Mosfilm Vides Cinematografica Empresa Hispanoamericana de Video Paramount Home Video Paramount Pictures Sovexportfilm |
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Release date
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1969 (USSR) 23 December 1969 (Italy) 29 July 1971 (USA) |
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Running time
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158 min (Russian version) 121 min (International version) |
| Country | USSR / Italy |
| Language | Russian / Italian / English |
| Budget | $10,000,000 |
The Red Tent (Russian: Красная палатка, translit. Krasnaya palatka; Italian: La tenda rossa; Spanish: La tienda roja) is a joint Soviet/Italian 1969 film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov.
The film is based on the story of the mission to rescue Umberto Nobile and the other survivors of the crash of the Airship Italia. It features Sean Connery as Roald Amundsen and Peter Finch as Nobile. The script was adapted by Yuri Nagibin and Mikhail Kalatozov from Nagibin's novel of the same title. Nagibin couldn't complete the script due to a series of conflicts with the producer, who insisted on expanding the role of his mistress Claudia Cardinale, and it was completed by de Concini and Bolt.
The film begins in Rome many years after the expedition. Nobile has endured years of scorn for his actions during the disaster and its aftermath. He imagines his apartment turned into a court of inquiry against him, where witnesses and judges are his former crewmen – including Captain Zappi, his navigator and his meteorologist Finn Malmgren. Also arrayed against him are Valeria, Malmgren's lover, Captain Romagna, one of the expedition's would-be recuers, famed aviator Lundborg, professor Samoilovich, chief of the Soviet rescue mission, his pilot , and Roald Amundsen who lost his life in the search for survivors of Nobile's expedition.
As they try Nobile, the events of the expedition and its failure are depicted. The expedition is successful at first, but ends in disaster. The Italia is weighed down when ice forms on it. Colliding with the ground, the airship's gondola is torn from its "envelope", the upper frame which contains the airship's lifting cells. Freed of the weight of the gondola, the envelope floats away and out of control, taking some of Nobile's crew with it.
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