Traffic Jam (film)
1979 film by Luigi Comencini
- Alberto Sordi
- Annie Girardot
- Fernando Rey
- Patrick Dewaere
- Ángela Molina
- Harry Baer
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Stefania Sandrelli
- Ugo Tognazzi
- Miou-Miou
- Gérard Depardieu
Release date
- 12 January 1979 (1979-01-12)
Running time
Traffic Jam (Italian: L'ingorgo - Una storia impossibile) is a 1979 Italian satirical comedy-drama film directed by Luigi Comencini.[1] It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.[2] The film, although uncredited, is based on the 1966 short story "L'Autoroute du sud" by Julio Cortázar.[3]
Plot
In a main thoroughfare on the outskirts of Rome, thousands of motorists are stuck in terrible traffic jam for twenty-four hours. In a stretch of road there is a variety of characters whose behaviour becomes strange. There is a selfish and hypocritical entrepreneur in a luxury car; a young hippie girl harassed and then raped by some dandies and a family from Naples on the way to Rome to abort their daughter.
The day the traffic jam clears, the entrepreneur hires the girl from Naples for a record company in exchange for a sexual service. The girl is raped and then comforted by a man who wants to avenge her but then gives up. The rapists leave quietly once more.
Cast
- Annie Girardot as Irene
- Fernando Rey as Carlo
- Miou-Miou as Angela
- Gérard Depardieu as Franco
- Ugo Tognazzi as Professor
- Marcello Mastroianni as Marco Montefoschi
- Stefania Sandrelli as Teresa
- Alberto Sordi as De Benedetti
- Orazio Orlando as Ferreri
- Gianni Cavina as Pompeo
- Harry Baer as Mario
- Ángela Molina as Martina
- Ciccio Ingrassia as The Dying Man
- Patrick Dewaere as Young man
- José Sacristán as The Priest
References
- ^ "NY Times: Traffic Jam". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2012. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2009.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Traffic Jam". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 24 May 2009.
- ^ Cento anni dalla nascita di Luigi Comencini, 5 film da non perdere e l'omaggio di Sky- Film.it (in Italian)
External links
- Traffic Jam at IMDb
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Films directed by Luigi Comencini
- Hey Boy (1948)
- The Emperor of Capri (1949)
- Behind Closed Shutters (1951)
- Heidi (1952)
- Girls Marked Danger (1953)
- La valigia dei sogni (1953)
- Bread, Love and Dreams (1953)
- Bread, Love and Jealousy (1954)
- The Belle of Rome (1955)
- The Window to Luna Park (1957)
- Husbands in the City (1957)
- Mogli pericolose (1958)
- Le sorprese dell'amore (1959)
- And That on Monday Morning (1959)
- Everybody Go Home (1960)
- On the Tiger's Back (1961)
- The Police Commissioner (1962)
- Bebo's Girl (1963)
- Three Nights of Love (1964)
- My Wife (1964)
- Don Camillo in Moscow (1965)
- Six Days a Week (1965)
- Le bambole (1965)
- Incompreso (1966)
- Italian Secret Service (1968)
- Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969)
- Senza sapere niente di lei (1969)
- The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972)
- The Scientific Cardplayer (1973)
- Somewhere Beyond Love (1974)
- Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974)
- The Sunday Woman (1975)
- Basta che non si sappia in giro (1976)
- Strange Occasion (1976)
- Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
- The Cat (1977)
- Traffic Jam (1978)
- Eugenio (1980)
- Cercasi Gesù (1982)
- Cuore (1984)
- La Storia (1986)
- A Boy from Calabria (1987)
- La Bohème (1988)
- Merry Christmas... Happy New Year (1989)
- Marcellino (1992)
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