Il bell'Antonio

*Il bell'Antonio*
Il bell'Antonio
	Film poster
Directed by	Mauro Bolognini
Written by	Pier Paolo Pasolini; Gino Visentini;
Based on	Il bell'Antonio; by Vitaliano Brancati;
Produced by	Alfredo Bini
Starring	Marcello Mastroianni; Claudia Cardinale;
Cinematography	Armando Nannuzzi
Edited by	Nino Baragli
Music by	Piero Piccioni
Production; companies	Cino Del Duca; Arco Film; Société Cinématographique Lyre;
Distributed by	Cino Del Duca
Release date	1960;
Running time	105 minutes
Countries	Italy; France;
Language	Italian

Il bell'Antonio ("Handsome Antonio") is a 1960 Italian-French drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale.^[1] It is based on the novel of the same name by Vitaliano Brancati and was adapted for the screen by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Gino Visentini, moving the novel's setting during Italy's fascist era to the present.^[2]

The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.^[3] In 2008, the film was included in the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."^[4]

^ "NY Times: Il bell'Antonio". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2009-03-22.
^ "Il bell'Antonio". Il Cinema Ritrovato. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
^ "Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno. Archived from the original on 2009-07-19. Retrieved 2012-08-12.
^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 2021-03-11.