E la nave va (1983)

Director:

Federico Fellini

Writers:

Federico Fellini (writer) and
Tonino Guerra (writer)

Release Date:

7 October 1983 (Italy)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Music | War

Plot:

In July 1914 a luxury liner leaves Italy with the ashes of the famous opera singer Tetua. The boat is filled with her friends...

Plot Keywords:

Singer | Opera | Refugee | Sea | Gun

Awards:

10 wins

Cast

Freddie Jones	...	Orlando
Barbara Jefford	...	Ildebranda Cuffari
Victor Poletti	...	Aureliano Fuciletto
Peter Cellier	...	Sir Reginald J. Dongby
Elisa Mainardi	...	Teresa Valegnani
Norma West	...	Lady Violet Dongby Albertini
Paolo Paoloni	...	Il Maestro Albertini
Sarah-Jane Varley	...	Dorotea
Fiorenzo Serra	...	Il Granduca
Pina Bausch	...	La Principessa Lherimia
Pasquale Zito	...	Il Conte di Bassano
Linda Polan	...	Ines Ruffo Saltini
Philip Locke	...	Il Primo Ministro
Jonathan Cecil	...	Ricotin
Maurice Barrier	...	Ziloev
Fred Williams	...	Sabatino Lepori
Elisabeth Kaza
Colin Higgins	...	Il capo della polizia
Umberto Zuanelli	...	Primo maestro Rubetti
Claudio Ciocca	...	Secondo di bordo
Antonio Vezza	...	Le capitaine
Alex Partexano	...	Ufficiale (as Alessandro Partexano)
Domenico Pertica	...	Pastore
Ginestra Spinola	...	La cousine d'Edmea
Christian Fremont
Roberto Caporali	...	Padre di Dorotea
Franca Maresa	...	Madre di Dorotea
Marielle Duvelle
Helen Stirling
Vittorio Zarfati	...	Secondo maestro Rubetti
Janet Suzman	...	Edmea Tetua
Carlo Di Giacomo	...	Sabatino Lepori
Jean Schlegel	...	Sovraintendente
Umberto Barone	...	Scala
Monica Bertolitti
Danika La Loggia
Salvatore Calabrese	...	Banchiere
Johna Mancini	...	Segretario del sovrintendente
Francesco Scali
Cecilia Cerocchi	...	Moglie del sovrintendente
Franco Angrisano	...	Il cuoco
Ugo Fangareggi	...	Il barista
Pietro Fumelli
Andy Miller
Fides Stagni
Roberto Jacar
Raffaele Giangrande
Filippo De Gara
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Salvatore Billa	...	Waiter (uncredited)
Aisha Bragadin	...	Moglie di Lepori (uncredited)
Roger de Bellegarde	...	Il generale (uncredited)
Wolf Gaudlitz	...	Segratario di Ildebranda (uncredited)
Julian Jenkins	...	(uncredited)
Adam Kotwizky	...	(uncredited)
Francesco Maselli	...	Guardiano del rinoceronte (uncredited)
Regina Nemni	...	Clairvoyant young girl (uncredited)
Salvatore Omnis	...	Maestro di canto (uncredited)
Franco Ressel	...	Il medico (uncredited)
Luigi Uzzo	...	Il terzo di bordo (uncredited)

Directed by
Federico Fellini

Writing credits
Federico Fellini		(writer) and
Tonino Guerra		(writer)

Produced by
Franco Cristaldi	....	producer
Aldo Nemni	....	associate producer
Renzo Rossellini	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Gianfranco Plenizio

Cinematography by
Giuseppe Rotunno

Film Editing by
Ruggero Mastroianni

Production Design by
Dante Ferretti

Art Direction by
Maria-Teresa Barbasso
Nazzareno Piana
Massimo Razzi

Set Decoration by
Francesca Lo Schiavo
Massimo Tavazzi

Costume Design by
Maurizio Millenotti

Makeup Department
Rino Carboni	....	makeup artist
Grazia De Rossi	....	key hair stylist

Production Management
Georges Dybman	....	production manager
Pietro Notarianni	....	general manager
Lucio Orlandini	....	production manager
Willy Rahau	....	production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Gianni Arduini	....	assistant director
Andrea De Carlo	....	assistant director
Thierry Nahon	....	assistant director: France

Art Department
Nello Cappelli	....	property master
Giuliano Geleng	....	paintings
Rinaldo Geleng	....	paintings
Gianni Gianese	....	sculptor (as Giovanni Gianese)
Nazzareno Piana	....	architect
Massimo Razzi	....	architect
Italo Tomassi	....	painter

Sound Department
Fabio Ancillai	....	sound recordist
Fausto Ancillai	....	sound mixer
Fernando Caso	....	sound effects editor
Chris David	....	stereo sound consultant: Dolby
Alvaro Gramigna	....	foley artist
Tommaso Quattrini	....	sound engineer
Stefano Savino	....	boom operator

Special Effects by
Massimo Di Palma	....	special effects
Adriano Pischiutta	....	special effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Luigi Bernardini	....	assistant camera
Rodolfo Bramucci	....	gaffer
Umberto Dessena	....	grip
Alberto Emidi	....	key grip
Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci	....	camera operator (as Gianni Fiore)
Gianmaria Majorana	....	assistant camera (as Gian Maria Majorana)
Adriano Mancori	....	assistant camera
Massimo Zeri	....	documentary camera operator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Barbara Mastroianni	....	assistant costume designer

Editorial Department
Leda Bellini	....	assistant editor
Adriana Olasio	....	assistant editor
Kathleen Stratton	....	assistant editor (as Rossana Landi)

Music Department
Bruno Beccaria	....	tenor
Boris Carmeli	....	musician
Paolo Ghirlinzoni	....	music assistant
Bernadette Lucarini	....	second soprano
Ines Meisters	....	chorus master
Elvio Monti	....	associate conductor
Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz	....	first soprano
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai	....	orchestra (as Orchestra sinfonia e coro di Roma della RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana)
Gianfranco Plenizio	....	conductor
Gianfranco Plenizio	....	music arranger
Gianfranco Plenizio	....	piano
Piero Vendittelli	....	music engineer

Other crew
Ferruccio Amendola	....	voice dubbing: Freddie Jones
Giovanni Baviglio	....	voice dubbing: Victor Poletti
Leonetta Bentivoglio	....	choreographer (as Bentivoglio Loretta)
Nucci Condò	....	voice dubbing: Elisa Mainardi
Riccardo Cucciolla	....	dubbing director: Italian dialogues
Walter Fiordelmondo	....	production assistant
Norma Giacchero	....	script supervisor
Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz	....	voice dubbing: Linda Polan
Franco Penna	....	production accountant
Mara Zampieri	....	voice dubbing: Barbara Jefford
Andrea Zanzotto	....	text: For Opera singers

Production Companies

• Rai Uno Radiotelevisione (as RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana RETE 1)
• Vides Produzione
• Gaumont (co-production)
• Societa Investimenti Milanese (S.I.M.) (associate production) (as S.I.M.)

Distributors

• RaiTrade (2000) (worldwide) (all media) (sales)
• Cristaldifilm (2000) (worldwide) (all media) (rights)
• Gaumont (1983) (France) (theatrical)
• Altomedia. Co. Ltd. (Korea) (DVD)
• Altomedia. Co. Ltd. (Korea) (VHS)
• Criterion Collection, The (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Kinokuniya (2001) (Japan) (DVD)
• Paris Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)
• RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (1984) (USA) (VHS)
• Sovexportfilm
• Triumph Releasing Corporation (1984) (USA) (subtitled)
• Venus (Spain)

Other Companies

• Technicolor  prints
• Fonit Cetra  music publisher
• Cooperativa Doppiaggio Cinematografico (CDC) (I) (II)  dubbing (as CDC)
• Tirelli Costumi  costumes (as 'Tirelli' Roma)
• Cinecittà  filmed at
• Mario Russo Sartoria  costumes (as Russo)
• Cine Audio Effects  sound effects (as Cineaudio Effects)
• Studio 4  titles and opticals
• Studio Longardi  press relations
• Claudio Cremonesi  antiques
• Nino Lembo  jewelry
• Fendi  furs
• La Luce  lamps
• Richard Ginori  creatures: Ginea-Pig
• Sanchini  tapestry
• Rocchetti e Carboni  wigs (as Carboni - Rocchetti)
• RTC  transport

Also Known As:

"And the Ship Sails On" - International (English title) (imdb display title), USA
"E la nave va di Federico Fellini" - Italy (closing credits title)
"Et vogue le navire..." - France
"Da mitsuravs gemi" - Georgia (imdb display title), Soviet Union (Georgian title)
"Y la nave va" - Argentina, Spain
"És a hajó megy" - Hungary
"A lod pluje" - Czechoslovakia (Czech title)
"A statek plynie dalej" - Poland
"E la Nave Va" - Brazil (imdb display title)
"Fellinin Laiva" - Finland
"Fellinis Schiff der Träume" - West Germany
"Kai to ploio fevgei" - Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
"O Navio" - Portugal
"Och skeppet går" - Sweden
"Og skibet sejler" - Denmark (imdb display title)

Runtime:

132 min | Argentina:128 min | Sweden:118 min | USA:128 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian | German | Serbian

Color:

Black and White | Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Brazil:Livre | Italy:T | Australia:PG | Singapore:PG | Portugal:M/6 | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-8 | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:0 (canton of the Grisons) | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Rai Uno Radiotelevisione

Trivia:

The song "Rhinoceros", by Utah Saints on their album Two, contains a sample of Michael Stipe, singer of R.E.M., detailing the scenario of this film .

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006)

Soundtrack:

Or di vulcano al tempio

A gallery of Europeans before the volcano erupts.

"E la nave va" is one of the best films made by Fellini, which I see as the best film director ever. Just two personal comments about it. First, I have seen it in 1985, when in Romania a dark dictatorship saved hard currency by preventing foreign films to be imported. It was presented during a festival arranged by the Italian Embassy. Combine the local cultural desert and the post-modern style of this film and you'll understand why, after the film ended, I wanted to have just a walk-on part on it. My wife just proposed to pay the projectionist to run it again. The second comment is about a strange premonition Fellini had about the conflict in Serbia/Yougoslavia. Each time I see "E la nave va", I'm deeply moved about the ending, masterly contrasting bold opera music and the vanishing of a certain Europe.