The Fall of Italy

The Fall of Italy

Pad Italije
Directed by	Lordan Zafranović
Written by	Mirko Kovač Lordan Zafranović
Starring	Daniel Olbrychski Ena Begović Frano Lasić Snežana Savić Antun Nalis Gorica Popović Mirjana Karanović Miodrag Krivokapić Dragan Maksimović
Cinematography	Božidar Nikolić
Edited by	Josip Remenar
Music by	Alfi Kabiljo
Production companies	Jadran Film Centar Film
Release date	1981
Running time	114 minutes
Country	Yugoslavia
Language	Serbo-Croatian

The Fall of Italy (Serbo-Croatian: Pad Italije) is a 1981 Yugoslav war film by Croatian director Lordan Zafranović.^[1]

It won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film at the 1981 Pula Film Festival.^[2]

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Plot

On a Dalmatian island, the partisan commander Davorin (Daniel Olbrychski) liquidates, according to the party's understanding, an immoral friend and comrade Nika (Frano Lasić) and his lover, Krasna (Snežana Savić), an Italian collaborator. Davorin later marries the beautiful Veronika (Ena Begović), the daughter of a rich local. Owing to Davorin's negligence, the Nazis, Ustashe and Chetniks arrive on the island after Italy capitulates.^[3]

The fall of Italy causes armies to mobilise, leads to panic, skirmishes, cruelty and incentifies revenge. The island suffers from said panic and destruction. The commander of a partisan unit, a man dedicated to the cause, falls in love with a girl whose father is a landowner and traitor. From that moment on, he finds it harder to choose between love and freedom, and his resolve becomes weaker. His younger brother, who grew up during the revolution, judges his irresponsible behaviour. This story is followed by a mosaic of other characters and their fates.^[4]

Cast

Daniel Olbrychski as Davorin
Ena Begović as Veronika
Gorica Popović as Božica
Mirjana Karanović as Mare
Dragan Maksimović as Rafo
Miodrag Krivokapić as Andro
Dušan Janićijević as Ljubo
Ljiljana Krstić as Antica
Bata Živojinović as Grgo Kusturin
Frano Lasić as Niko
Snežana Savić as Krasna
Igor Hajdarhodžić as Lovre
Mira Župan as Luce
Tonko Lonza as Fra Blago
Miroljub Lešo as Vasilij Denisenko, Circassian
Antun Nalis as priest
Ranko Gučevac as Chetnik
Alenka Rančić
Zaim Muzaferija

Awards and honours

Awards

Pula Film Festival, 1981 - Big Golden Arena for Best Film, Golden Arena for Best Director^[5]
Valencia Film Festival, 1982 - Grand Prix (Lordan Zafranović)^[1]

Nominations

Venice Film Festival, 1981 - Golden Lion (Lordan Zafranović)^[6]

Legacy

The Yugoslav Film Archive, in accordance with its authorities based on the Law on Cultural Heritage, declared one hundred Serbian feature films (1911–1999) as cultural heritage of great importance on December 28, 2016. The Fall of Italy is also on that list.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b "Baza HR kinematografije". hrfilm.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2023-11-08.
^ "28. Festival igranog filma u Puli" (in Croatian). Pula Film Festival. Retrieved 21 May 2010.
^ "Пад Италије (1981)". www.kinoteka.org.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 2023-11-08.
^ "Pad Italije". filmovi.com (in Serbian). Retrieved 2023-11-08.
^ "PAD ITALIJE" (in Croatian). 2021-02-02. Archived from the original on 2021-02-02. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
^ The Fall of Italy (1981) - Awards - IMDb, retrieved 2023-11-08
^ "Сто српских играних филмова (1911-1999) проглашених за културно добро од великог значаја". www.kinoteka.org.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 2023-11-08.

External links

The Fall of Italy at IMDb
The Fall of Italy at AllMovie
The Fall of Italy at Filmski-Programi.hr (in Croatian)

Big Golden Arena for Best Film at the Pula Film Festival

As Yugoslav Film Awards
(1957–90)

Priests Ćira and Spira (1957)
H-8 (1958)
Train Without a Timetable (1959)
The Ninth Circle (1960)
Ballad About a Trumpet and a Cloud & The First Fires (1961)
Kozara (1962)
Face to Face (1963)
Official Position (1964)
Prometheus of the Island & Three (1965)
Monday or Tuesday (1966)
I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967)
When I Am Dead and Gone (1968)
Downstream from the Sun (1969)
Handcuffs (1970)
Red Wheat (1971)
The Master and Margaret (1972)
The Battle of Sutjeska (1973)
Guns of War (1974)
The House (1975)
Idealist (1976)
Don't Lean Out the Window (1977)
Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978)
Trophy (1979)
Petria's Wreath (1980)
The Fall of Italy (1981)
Body Scent (1983)
Balkan Spy (1984)
When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
Happy New Year '49 (1986)
Reflections (1987)
My Uncle's Legacy (1988)
The Meeting Point (1989)
Silent Gunpowder (1990)

As Croatian Film Awards
(1992–present)

Story from Croatia (1992)
Countess Dora (1993)
Washed Out (1995)
How the War Started on My Island (1996)
Mondo Bobo (1997)
When the Dead Start Singing (1998)
Madonna (1999)
Marshal Tito's Spirit (2000)
Slow Surrender (2001)
Fine Dead Girls (2002)
Here (2003)
Long Dark Night (2004)
What Iva Recorded (2005)
All for Free (2006)
The Living and the Dead (2007)
No One's Son (2008)
Metastases (2009)
Just Between Us (2010)
Kotlovina (2011)
A Letter to My Father (2012)
A Stranger (2013)
Number 55 (2014)
The High Sun (2015)
On the Other Side (2016)
A Brief Excursion (2017)
Mali (2018)
The Diary of Diana B. (2019)
Tereza37 (2020)
A Blue Flower (2021)
The Staffroom (2022)
Bigger Than Trauma (2023)

v t e Films directed by Lordan Zafranović
Sunday (1969) Chronicle of a Crime (1973) Passion According to Matthew (1975) Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978) The Fall of Italy (1981) Angel's Bite (1984) Evening Bells (1986) Aloa: Festivity of the Whores (1988) The Decline of the Century: Testament L.Z. (1994) Revenge (1995)