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, BelIissima, L'Amore) are reunited as ltalo and Rosa, the battIing BomboIinis, 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 fall of MussoIini, Italo, Santa Vittoria's most bedraggIed citizen, is appointed mayor by the resigning Fascist leadership. When the German army Ied by Captain Sepp von Prum (Hardy Kruger, Flight of the Phoenix, Barry Lyndon, Hatari!) arrives in search of the spoils of war, the townsfoIk must concoct a scheme to conceaI their most vaIuabIe treasure, a miIIion bottles of wine. The Secret of Santa Vittoria aIso stars Virna Lisi (How to Murder Your Wife, Queen Margot, Beyond Good and Evil), Giancarlo Giannini (Swept Away, Seven Beauties), Karl-Otto Alberty (The Great Escape), Eduardo Ciannelli (Gunga Din), singer Sergio Franchi, and is photographed by the Iegendary Giuseppi Rotunno (AII That Jazz, Fellini Satyricon)." |