A Romantic Adventure (Italian: Una romantica avventura) is a 1940 Italian historical drama film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Assia Noris, Gino Cervi and Leonardo Cortese.[1] It is inspired by the 1883 short story The Romantic Adventures Of A Milkmaid by Thomas Hardy. Produced when the two countries were at war, the setting was shifted from the English countryside of the late nineteenth century to Piedmont in the 1830s.

A Romantic Adventure
Directed byMario Camerini
Written byRenato Castellani
Gaspare Cataldo
Ivo Perilli
Giulio Morelli
Mario Soldati
Mario Camerini
Based onThe Romantic Adventures Of A Milkmaid by Thomas Hardy
Produced byGiuseppe Amato
StarringAssia Noris
Gino Cervi
Leonardo Cortese
CinematographyArturo Gallea
Edited byGiovanna Del Bosco
Music byAlessandro Cicognini
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Distributed byENIC
Release date
  • 6 September 1940 (1940-09-06)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome and on location around Lake Orta. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. It was screened at the 1940 Venice Film Festival.

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References

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  1. ^ Aprà p.111

Bibliography

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  • Aprà, Adriano. The Fabulous Thirties: Italian cinema 1929-1944. Electa International, 1979.
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