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...Antonio...
...films. It does. however, have the most exciting schedule of any of the courses; students enrolled in the course will have a chance to see films that are rarely, if ever, screened in the Boston area. Definite booking has already been made for Glauber Rocha's "Antonio das Mortes" and "Black God, White Devil," Jean Marie Straub's "The Chronicle of Anna Magdelena Bach," and Bertolucci's "The Partner." There is also a possibility that Rohmer's "Ma Nuit Chez Maud" will be screened...
...alive! I tell you, he is alive!" screams Giovanna (Sophia Loren). She is a woman with the exuberant breasts and thighs of a Gaston Lachaise statue, the eyes of a Modigliani portrait; perhaps that is why no one listens to her voice. Years ago, she and a soldier, Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), were married. He was sent to the Russian front; she returned to her village. The war ended; Antonio was left behind on a frozen Russian landscape. Now there are gray spiderwebs in the luxuriant brown hair. In a dozen years Antonio has never written. Yet in Giovanna...
Weeks of wandering in the Soviet Union bring Giovanna to the brink of exhaustion. There she finds a little wooden house. Inside are wide-eyed, redheaded Mascia (Ludmila Savelyeva) and her little daughter. Yes, si, da (one has his choice in this dubbed babel), Mascia is Antonio's Russian wife. An evening train pulls into the little town -and see! It is the bigamist. Giovanna glares at him. Mastroianni, touching bottom in a long and honorable career, gives his impression of a spaniel. Weeping, Giovanna boards the shuttle and heads back to Italy...
Mascia analyzes lugubrious Antonio. "Not even our nice new apartment has made you smile," she mourns. True, all too true. The spaniel packs a lunch and entrains for Italy. But the old union is doomed. Giovanna has a lover, a bambino (Carlo Ponti Jr.) and a job sandpapering the rumps of clothing dummies. Henry Mancini's calorific music sounds the knell for Antonio. He gets its message and entrains to Russia, to Mascia and the glorious new housing project where the balalaikas play...