The Sky Is Red

{{Multiple issues| {{Cleanup rewrite|date=July 2020}} {{More citations needed|date=July 2020}} }} {{Infobox film | name = The Sky Is Red | image = Il Cielo è rosso.jpg | caption = | director =Claudio Gora | writer = Cesare Zavattini<br />Claudio Gora<br />Leopoldo Trieste<br />Lamberto Santilli | music = Valentino Bucchi | cinematography = | editing = | producer = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1950}} | runtime = | country = Italy | language = Italian | budget = }} '''''The Sky Is Red''''' ({{langx|it|Il cielo è rosso}}) is a 1950 Italian drama film. It is the directorial debut of Claudio Gora and it is based on the novel with the same name by Giuseppe Berto, depicting the struggle for survival of a group of boys and girls in a bombed-out town in Italy during World War II.<ref name="45-59">{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|date=1991 |publisher=Gremese, 1991|isbn=8876055487}}</ref>{{pages needed|date=July 2017}}

It was shown as part of a retrospective "Questi fantasmi: Cinema italiano ritrovato" at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.<ref>{{cite news|last=Simone Pinchiorri|title=Mostra di Venezia 2008: "Questi Fantasmi: Cinema Italiano Ritrovato (1946 – 1975)"|url=http://www.cinemaitaliano.info/news/01960/mostra-di-venezia-2008-questi-fantasmi-cinema.html|accessdate=18 April 2013|newspaper=CinemaItaliano|date=28 July 2008}}</ref>{{pages needed|date=July 2017}}

== Cast == *Jacques Sernas: Tullio *Marina Berti: Carla *Mischa Auer Jr.: Daniele *Anna Maria Ferrero: Giulia *Lauro Gazzolo: calzolaio *Liliana Tellini: Nora *Amedeo Trilli

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0041249}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sky Is Red}} Category:1950 films Category:Italian drama films Category:Films directed by Claudio Gora Category:Films with screenplays by Cesare Zavattini Category:1950 drama films Category:1950 directorial debut films Category:Italian black-and-white films Category:1950 Italian films Category:Films based on works by Giuseppe Berto