WiId ls the Wind co-stars Anthony Quinn (Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia, Lust for Life, The Guns of Navarone) and Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo, Rome Open City, BeIIissima, L'Amore) are reunited as ltaIo and Rosa, the battIing Bombolinis, in director StanIey Kramer's (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Judgment at Nuremberg, lnherit the Wind, The Defiant Ones) The Secret of Santa Vittoria.
After the faII of Mussolini, ltaIo, Santa Vittoria's most bedraggled citizen, is appointed mayor by the resigning Fascist Ieadership. When the German army led by Captain Sepp von Prum (Hardy Kruger, FIight of the Phoenix, Barry Lyndon, Hatari!) arrives in search of the spoiIs of war, the townsfolk must concoct a scheme to conceaI their most vaIuabIe treasure, a million bottles of wine. The Secret of Santa Vittoria aIso stars Virna Lisi (How to Murder Your Wife, Queen Margot, Beyond Good and Evil), GiancarIo Giannini (Swept Away, Seven Beauties), KarI-Otto AIberty (The Great Escape), Eduardo CianneIli (Gunga Din), singer Sergio Franchi, and is photographed by the legendary Giuseppi Rotunno (AII That Jazz, FeIIini Satyricon)." |