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 faIl 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 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), Giancarlo Giannini (Swept Away, Seven Beauties), Karl-Otto AIberty (The Great Escape), Eduardo CianneIIi (Gunga Din), singer Sergio Franchi, and is photographed by the legendary Giuseppi Rotunno (All That Jazz, FeIIini Satyricon)." |