Senso '45

Senso '45 (also released internationally as Black Angel) is an Italian erotic drama film written and directed by Tinto Brass, based on the novella Senso by Camillo Boito, which inspired also Luchino Visconti's 1954 film.[1]

Senso '45
Directed byTinto Brass
Produced byGiuseppe Colombo
Written byTinto Brass
Based onSenso by Camillo Boito
StarringAnna Galiena
Gabriel Garko
Music byEnnio Morricone
CinematographyMassimo Di Venanzo
Daniele Nannuzzi
Edited byTinto Brass
Fiorenza Muller
Distributed byEagle Pictures
Release date
  • 12 April 2002 (2002-04-12)
Running time
128 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Instead of being set during the Third Italian War of Independence, the film is set in Venice during the last months of the fascist regime.[2]

Plot

Livia Mazzoni, the wife of a senior manager of MinCulPop, departs from Asolo to Venice, where she meets her lover Helmut Schultz, an officer of the SS. During her car trip, Livia remembers the sexual drift that brought her up to that point, overwhelming her in a whirlwind of erotic adventures, illicit trafficking, shady characters who move in the shadow of the disarraying fascist regime in the final months of World War II.

Cast

Production

Tinto Brass re-adapted the source novella as Senso '45 in 2002 when he read it and found himself unsatisfied with Visconti's rather liberal adaptation. The film starred Anna Galiena as Livia and Gabriel Garko as her lover. The story of the film is much more faithful to Camillo Boito's work than the earlier adaptation in terms of tone and story, but the action was transported from the War of Unification to the end of World War II, with Remigio becoming a Nazi Lieutenant and Livia updated to being the wife of a high ranking Fascist official. Brass later explained that the change in time was made because he did not want to compete with Visconti's vision of Risorgimento-era Italy.

Unlike the 1954 version, Senso '45 did not romanticize the affair between Livia and Remigio/Mahler (now named "Helmut Schultz" in the new adaptation). Rather, the film showed it as a clinical study of vanity and lust. The film won Italian cinema's "Silver Ribbon" Award for best costume design.

Awards and nominations

Nastro d'Argento Awards (2002)
  • Nastro d'Argento for Best Costume Design to Alessandro Lai and Alberto Moretti[3]

References
  1. "Senso '45: Anna Galiena e Gabriel Garko amanti bollenti per Tinto Brass". film.it. 12 May 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  2. "SENSO '45, un film di Tinto Brass". palcoscenico.biz. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  3. "Nastri d'Argento 2002". news.cinecitta.com. 20 June 2002. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
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