No Turning Back (film)

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No Turning Back

Directed by	Alessandro Blasetti
Written by	Alba De Cespedes Alessandro Blasetti Vittorio Nino Novarese Diego Calcagno Paola Ojetti
Based on	No Turning Back by Alba De Cespedes
Produced by	Attilio Fattori Romolo Sabbatini
Starring	Elisa Cegani Valentina Cortese Maria Denis Doris Duranti Mariella Lotti María Mercader Dina Sassoli Vittorio De Sica
Cinematography	Václav Vích
Edited by	Dolores Tamburini
Music by	Alessandro Cicognini
Production company	Artisti Associati
Distributed by	Artisti Associati
Release date	5 January 1945 (1945-01-05)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

No Turning Back (Italian: Nessuno torna indietro) is a 1945 Italian drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring an ensemble cast including Elisa Cegani, Valentina Cortese, Maria Denis, Doris Duranti, Mariella Lotti, María Mercader, Dina Sassoli and Vittorio De Sica.^[1] ^[2] It is based on the 1938 novel of the same title by Alba De Cespedes.^[3] It was shot at the Scalera Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Guido Fiorini and Carlo Egidi. Made in 1943 during the Second World, due to disruption caused by the fighting in Italy, it did not go on release until January 1945.

Synopsis

In the 1930s a group of female students from very different backgrounds boarding together at university each deal with their own life challenges. one of them, Vinca, falls in love with a Spaniard who returns to fight in his country's civil war.

Cast

Elisa Cegani as Silvia Custo
Valentina Cortese as Valentina
Maria Denis as Anna Bortone
Doris Duranti as Emanuela Andari
Mariella Lotti as Xenia Costantini
María Mercader as Vinca
Dina Sassoli as Milly
Vittorio De Sica as Maurizio
Annibale Betrone as Il padre di Emanuela
Elvira Betrone as La madre superiora
Anna Capodaglio as Signorina Prudenzina
Alberto Capozzi as Raimondo Horsch
Ada Dondini as Signorina Lorenza
Mino Doro as Dino Rizzi
Giuseppina Fiore as Stefania
Adele Garavaglia as La direttrice dell'istituto Grimaldi
Nicola Maldacea as Il parroco
Gilda Marchiò as Donna Ines
Lamberto Picasso as Il rettore
Giuditta Rissone as Dora Belluzzi
Checco Rissone as Ignazio
Ernesto Sabbatini as Monsignor Tommasi
Bella Starace Sainati as Donna Antonia Bortone - nonna di Anna
Filippo Scelzo as Guido Belluzzi
Giovanna Scotto as Donna Matilde Bortone - madre di Anna
Adriana Sivieri as Pilar
Edda Soligo as Vandina
Alberto Tavazzi as Ramiro
Enzo Fiermonte as Mario Ponte
Claudio Gora as Andrea
Roldano Lupi as Luis
Virgilio Riento as Don Alfonso Bortone - padre di Anna

References

^ Schnapp p.128
^ Verdone p.51
^ Goble p.113

Bibliography

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Schnapp, Jeffrey Thompson . Staging Fascism: 18BL and the Theater of Masses for Masses. Stanford University Press, 1996.
Verdone, Luca. I Film di Alessandro Blasetti. Gremese Editore, 1989.

External links

No Turning Back at IMDb

Films directed by Alessandro Blasetti

Sun (1929)
Nerone (1930)
Resurrection (1931)
Mother Earth (1931)
Palio (1932)
The Table of the Poor (1932)
The Haller Case (1933)
1860 (1934)
The Old Guard (1934)
Aldebaran (1935)
The Countess of Parma (1937)
Ettore Fieramosca (1938)
Backstage (1939)
An Adventure of Salvator Rosa (1939)
The Iron Crown (1941)
The Jester's Supper (1942)
Four Steps in the Clouds (1942)
No Turning Back (1945)
Un giorno nella vita (1946)
Fabiola (1949)
Father's Dilemma (1950)
In Olden Days (1952)
Too Bad She's Bad (1954)
A Slice of Life (1954)
Lucky to Be a Woman (1956)
Love and Chatter (1957)
I Love, You Love (1961)
Three Fables of Love (1962)
Liolà (1963)
Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966)
Simón Bolívar (1969)

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