Red Desert

Name: Red Desert
Genre: Drama
Released: 1964-09-04
Duration: 1 h 57 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir

This is the story of a woman… Her hidden thirsts and hungers…

Il deserto rosso (1964)

Timing: 1:57 (117 min)

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Release date

1964-09-04

Country

France, Italy

Production

Federiz, Francoriz Production, Film Duemila

Genre

Drama

Budget

Box office

Website

Director

Michelangelo Antonioni

Actors

Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir, Lili Rheims, Aldo Grotti, Valerio Bartoleschi, Emanuela Pala Carboni, Giuliano Missirini
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Scenario

Producer

Tonino Cervi

Camera operator

Carlo Di Palma

Composer

Giovanni Fusco

Artist

Piero Poletto

Audition

Editing

Eraldo Da Roma
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Short description

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

What's left behind the scenes

The working title of the film was “Sky-Blue and Green” (Celeste e verde) – in the film, the heroine played by Monica Vitti wants to paint her shop in these colors, because “they are cool colors that shouldn’t irritate.”
During filming, actor Richard Harris experimented with LSD, which complicated the shooting process – once he was caught by the Roman police climbing the famous Trevi Fountain, after which he was taken to a hotel where, under the influence of the drug, he broke several windows with his fists.
Shortly before the end of filming, Richard Harris flew out of Italy without warning. An actor of similar build was urgently found to be filmed from the back and from a distance. During post-production, all of Harris’s lines were dubbed by an Italian actor.