Swept Away (1974 film)
1974 film by Lina Wertmüller / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August (Italian: Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto),[4] usually shortened to Swept Away, is a 1974 Italian romantic adventure comedy drama written and directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato. The film follows a wealthy woman whose yachting vacation with friends in the Mediterranean Sea takes an unexpected turn when she and one of the boat's crew are separated from the others and they become stranded on a desert island. The woman's capitalist beliefs and the man's communist convictions clash, but during their struggle to survive their situation, their social roles are reversed.
Swept Away | |
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Italian | Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto |
Directed by | Lina Wertmüller |
Written by | Lina Wertmüller |
Produced by | Romano Cardarelli |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Ennio Guarnieri |
Edited by | Franco Fraticelli |
Music by | Piero Piccioni |
Distributed by | Medusa Distribuzione |
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Running time | 114 minutes[1] |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Box office | $6 million (US and Canada)[2] or $1,750,000[3] |
Swept Away was released to divided, but largely positive, reviews, and it won the 1975 National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Award for Top Foreign Film. An English-language remake starring Madonna and directed by her then-husband Guy Ritchie was released in 2002.