Goodbye Youth (1940 film)

Goodbye Youth
Goodbye Youth
Directed by	Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Written by	Nino Oxilia (play); (play); Giacomo De Benedetti; Salvatore Gotta; Ferdinando Maria Poggioli;
Starring	María Denis; Adriano Rimoldi; Clara Calamai; Carlo Campanini;
Cinematography	Carlo Montuori
Edited by	Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
Music by	; Enzo Masetti;
Production; company
Distributed by	ICI
Release date	24 December 1940
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Goodbye Youth (Italian: Addio, giovinezza!) is a 1940 Italian drama film directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli and starring María Denis, Adriano Rimoldi and Clara Calamai. The film was adapted from the 1911 by Nino Oxilia and , which had been adapted into films on three previous occasions. The film was a breakthrough role for Calamai who emerged as a leading star of Italian cinema during the 1940s.^[1] It was made at the Cinecittà studios in Rome and the in Turin.

Synopsis[]

The film is set in Turin at the beginning of the twentieth century, where a student (Rimoldi) begins a romance with a seamstress Dorina (Denis). However, he is lured away by a sophisticated older woman (Calamai) to Dorina's distress.

Cast[]

María Denis as Dorina
Adriano Rimoldi as Mario
Clara Calamai as Elena
Carlo Campanini as Leone
as Emma
as Carlo
Paolo Carlini as Pino
Bella Starace Sainati as La madre di Dorina
Aldo Fiorelli as Ernesto
as Giovanni
as Tito
Mario Casaleggio as Il padre di Mario
as La madre di Mario
Vera Carmi as La fidanzata di Giovanni
as La fidanzata di Ernesto
Arturo Bragaglia as Marco, il ciabattino
as L'anziano signore, amante di Elena
as Una ragazza al bar
as Un'altra ragazza al bar

References[]

^ Moliterno p.58

Bibliography[]

Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.

External links[]

Goodbye Youth at IMDb

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[1] Moliterno p.58

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