A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
Cinematography
Gianni Di Venanzo turns factories and fog into heartbreak.
Direction
Antonioni finds beauty in emotional paralysis.
Director
Michelangelo Antonioni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Steve Cochran spoke no Italian; he learned his lines phonetically and reportedly had no idea what he was saying half the time. Somehow it works.
Shot in the Po Valley during Italy's economic boom, the film captures workers being left behind by progress — a theme that still stings today.
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