The cinema in chianti immoratalato * "Palio" (1932) by Alessandro Blasetti, set in Siena
* "Girl of the prize" (1957) by Luigi Zampa, comedy pink Diana Dors, Vittorio Gassman. Set in all the most famous of Siena with Piazza del Campo in the foreground, he moves all over Tuscany, from Pisa to San Gimignano, having dinner at Villa Collodi
* "The arch-fiend" (1966) with Vittorio Ettore Scola Gassman and Mickey Rooney, was shot in the picturesque scenery of Florence, 1478
* "Romeo and Juliet" (1968) by Franco Zeffirelli, who won two Oscars. Zeffirelli, in love with Tuscany, moves the original setting of Shakespeare's Verona to Pienza. The director says: "I love la Toscana non solo perché ci sono nato e ho trascorso gli anni della mia formazione: come regista aspetto che mi venga offerta l'occasione di girare in Toscana perché, oltre ad esserne figlio, non credo che esista al mondo una terra così piena di ispirazione, di bellezza, di varietà naturali alle quali si unisce l'intelligenza e la 'cultura' dei suoi abitanti"
* "Nostalghia" di Tarkovskij. La scena più sofferente è girata nella vasca termale di Bagno Vignoni in provincia di Siena
* "Il piccolo Archimede" (1979) di Gianni Amelio. Premio all'attrice Laura Betti al Festival di San Sebastian. Ambientato nella villa di Mondeggi (Bagno a Ripoli),è stato girato in soli dieci giorni in sixteen mm and for the television market (fiction produced by RAI)
* "Fiorile" by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, filmed in Rignano, Galluzzo and around Florence. Petraia the Villa in the heart of Tuscany, became the home of the Benedetti family's memory. Taviani tastefully depicts photographs and paintings of wheat fields and the flowers of spring and Rignano Galluzzo
* "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993) Keanu Reeves. To re-create on screen the comedy, the director of Sicily Messina left to shoot the scenes in Vignamaggio villa in the heart of Chianti. The Tuscan light, with the peak in the summer sun has managed to illuminate the groves and vineyards surrounding the villa coloring the scenes with a unique atmosphere. The geometries of the house, its architecture made up of joints, but later proved a perfect setting. Kenneth Branagh says: "turn in Tuscany has been a pleasure from start to finish. The scenery is breathtaking, the magical light and the people friendly and polite. The Italian technicians are available and talented, and at the end of the workday , delicious food and wine "
*" With my eyes closed "(1994) by Francesca Archibugi, goes to Siena via Radda in Chianti and Colle. A Siena Archibugi wanted to faithfully reconstruct the city in 1913: the shots have affected the Piazza del Campo and Piazza Tolomei, Fontebranda from Via Town, the Piazza Provenzano a lane in the Pontani, the square Luigi Bonelli
* "Stealing Beauty" (1996) by Bernardo Bertolucci. The colors of the Chianti region pervade the shots: the landscape of fields and the soft light of the sun shows a lovely setting. Shot in the charmed inner and outer: the sulphurous water of Borra, Bandinelli villa in Geggiano
* "Up at the Villa" (1998) by Philip Haas, shot between Florence and Siena with an exceptional cast as Kristin Scott and Sean Penn. The villa of the novel and the parks and avenues were found in the commune of Siena Sovicille (Cetinale villa and the park of the Thebaid). For the scene in the bedroom, the director preferred villa Sfacciata al Galluzzo a Firenze, mentre sono state girate a villa Cetinale le scene nella sala da pranzo e tutti gli esterni
* "Sogni di una notte di mezza estate" (1998) di Michael Hoffman con Kevin Kline, Sophie Marceau, Micelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Christian Bale. La zona senese si guadagna la palma di set shakesperiano 'fantastico' per eccellenza. L'ambientazione è il paese di Montepulciano
* "Hannibal" di Ridley Scott. Alcune scene sono girate a Firenze
* "Il gladiatore" (2000) di Ridley Scott, vincitore di cinque premi Oscar. In Val d'Orcia Scott è riuscito a trovare i giochi di luce che cercava: il giallo dei campi di grano illuminati dai caldi tramonti che riempiono i sogni del suo hero. Scott moved for two weeks, the crew from Malta in the countryside between Siena and Pienza, San Quirico. The main locations were: the cottage Terrapillea a mile from Pienza, next to the Church of Corsignano that houses a farm, and farm house in front of the Belvedere at the top of the knoll near San Quirico and the church of Our Lady of Life Leta (now a residence in Rome for the occasion)
For more details, even on movies that were filmed in other parts of Tuscany I recommend reading "Toscana. A film that never ends", ed. When you reach 2002. The information here is taken from this book.
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