A PISTOL SHOT
synopsis
Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Sergei can't bring himself to kill his friend. He fires only after taking the bullet out of his pistol. Now, it is the Count's turn to fire...
international title: | A Pistol Shot |
original title: | Un colpo di pistola |
working title: | Utolsó pillanat |
country: | Italy |
year: | 1942 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Renato Castellani |
film run: | 90' |
release date: | IT 31/08/1942, ES 04/02/1943, PT 09/02/1944, FR 07/06/1947 |
screenplay: | Mario Bonfantini, Renato Castellani, Corrado Pavolini, Mario Soldati |
cast: | Assia Noris, Fosco Giachetti, Antonio Centa, Rubi Dalma, Renato Cialente |
cinematography by: | Massimo Terzano |
film editing: | Mario Serandrei |
art director: | Gino Brosio, Nicola Benois, Gastone Medin |
costumes designer: | Maria De Matteis |
music: | Vincenzo Tommasini |