The Condemned of Altona [I Sequestrati di Altona]

Vittorio De Sica (director)
Jean-Paul Sartre (play)
Roberto Biciocchi (photographer)
Cesare Zavattini, Abby Mann (screenwriter)
Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Robert Wagner, Francoise Prevost (starring)

N.p. N.p., Circa 1963. Vintage reference photograph of Francoise Prevost from the US release of the 1962 Italian film.

Based on the 1959 play "Les Sequestres d'Altona" by Jean-Paul Sartre. A wealthy German industrialist hides his Nazi war criminal son in his mansion, unaware the war has ended and continually building a case for Germany's defense. One of De Sica's darkest films.

Shot on location in Hamburg, Germany.

10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.


[Book #151111]