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Overview

User Rating:
6.6/10   2,117 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Peter Greenaway (writer)
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Release Date:
23 September 1987 (France) more
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Plot:
An American architect arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, who is famous for his oval structures... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
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Beautiful more (21 total)

Cast

  (in credits order) (verified as complete)

Brian Dennehy ... Stourley Kracklite
Chloe Webb ... Louisa Kracklite

Lambert Wilson ... Caspasian Speckler
Sergio Fantoni ... Io Speckler
Stefania Casini ... Flavia Speckler
Vanni Corbellini ... Frederico
Alfredo Varelli ... Julio
Geoffrey Copleston ... Caspetti
Francesco Carnelutti ... Pastarri
Marino Masé ... Trettorio
Marne Maitland ... Battistino
Claudio Spadaro ... Mori
Rate Furlan ... Violinist
Julian Jenkins ... Old Doctor
Enrica Maria Scrivano ... Mother
Ricardo Ussani ... Little Boy
Stefano Gragnani ... The Nose Man
Andrea Prodan ... Dr.Artuso Amansa
Fabio Sartor ... Policeman
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Directed by
Peter Greenaway 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Peter Greenaway  writer

Produced by
Conchita Airoldi .... associate producer
Colin Callender .... producer
Dino Di Dionisio .... associate producer
Walter Donohue .... producer
 
Original Music by
Wim Mertens 
 
Cinematography by
Sacha Vierny 
 
Film Editing by
John Wilson 
 
Art Direction by
Luciana Vedovelli Levi  (as Luciana Vedovelli)
 
Costume Design by
Maurizio Millenotti 
 
Makeup Department
Luigi Rocchetti .... assistant makeup artist
 
Production Management
Patrizia Massa .... unit manager
 
Art Department
Giorgio Desideri .... set dresser
 
Sound Department
Peter Glossop .... production sound mixer
Peter Maxwell .... sound re-recording mixer
Steve Hancock .... sound camera operator (uncredited)
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Vincenzo Carpineta .... assistant camera
Paolo Di Stefano .... electrician
 
Casting Department
Rita Forzano .... casting: Rome
Ellen Lewis .... casting: New York
Simone Reynolds .... casting: London
 
Editorial Department
Milfid Ellis .... first assistant editor
Chris Wyatt .... assistant editor
 
Music Department
Glenn Branca .... composer: additional music
Paul Daniel .... conductor
 
Other crew
Anna Orieti .... production accountant
Roger Phillips .... title designer
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Il ventre dell' architetto (Italy)
Der Bauch des Architekten (Austria) (West Germany) [de]
A Barriga do Arquiteto (Brazil) [pt]
Arkitektens mave (Denmark) [da]
Arkkitehdin vatsa (Finland) [fi]
Brzuch architekta (Poland) [pl]
El vientre de un arquitecto (Spain) [es]
I koilia tou arhitektona (Greece) [el]
Le ventre de l'architecte (France) [fr]
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USA:118 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Stourley Kracklite: All fascists are meat-eaters. more
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5 out of 9 people found the following review useful.
Beautiful, 28 October 2006
10/10
Author: severin72 from United States

Greenaway's visuals (which betray his origins as a painter in almost every gorgeously composed shot) are sumptuous. Wim Mertens score is mesmerizing. Add them to Brian Dennehy's towering performance as obsessed, betrayed, and ultimately dying American architect Stourley Kracklite and you have something very special. Kracklite is in Rome battling to put on an exhibition to his idol, 18th century French architect Etienne Louis Boulet. His young wife (Webb) betrays him, the natives scheme to undermine his exhibition and he begins to crumble physically like the ruins of the eternal city around him. The story, largely carried on Dennehy's massive shoulders, is almost incidental to the glorious, poetic footage of Rome. It is so movingly beautiful that, when I finally got around to visiting the city (a trip in no small part inspired by this film) the reality of the place couldn't compete. If you can, watch this on a big screen with the best possible suround-sound. If you can't, watch it anyway.

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