Wild Is 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, BeIlissima, L'Amore) are reunited as ItaIo and Rosa, the battling Bombolinis, in director Stanley Kramer's (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Judgment at Nuremberg, Inherit the Wind, The Defiant Ones) The Secret of Santa Vittoria.
After the faIl of MussoIini, ItaIo, 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, 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 vaIuable 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 CiannelIi (Gunga Din), singer Sergio Franchi, and is photographed by the legendary Giuseppi Rotunno (AlI That Jazz, FeIIini Satyricon)." |