# Tragic Hunt

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{{Short description|1947 Italian drama film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Tragic Hunt
| image          = Cacciatragica.jpg
 
| caption        =  
| director       = [Giuseppe De Santis](/source/Giuseppe_De_Santis)
| producer       = [Giorgio Agliani](/source/Giorgio_Agliani) <br> [Marcello Caccialupi](/source/Marcello_Caccialupi)
| writer         = Giuseppe De Santis<br>[Corrado Alvaro](/source/Corrado_Alvaro)<br>[Michelangelo Antonioni](/source/Michelangelo_Antonioni)<br>[Umberto Barbaro](/source/Umberto_Barbaro)<br>[Carlo Lizzani](/source/Carlo_Lizzani)<br>[Gianni Puccini](/source/Gianni_Puccini)<br>[Cesare Zavattini](/source/Cesare_Zavattini)
| narrator       = 
| starring       = [Vivi Gioi](/source/Vivi_Gioi)<br>[Massimo Girotti](/source/Massimo_Girotti)<br>[Carla Del Poggio](/source/Carla_Del_Poggio)<br>[Andrea Checchi](/source/Andrea_Checchi)
| music          = [Giuseppe Rosati](/source/Giuseppe_Rosati_(composer))
| cinematography = [Otello Martelli](/source/Otello_Martelli)
| editing        = [Mario Serandrei](/source/Mario_Serandrei)
| studio         = Dante Film <br> [ANPI](/source/ANPI)
| distributor    = Libertas Film
| released       = {{Film date|1947|11|04|df=yes}}
| runtime        = 90 Minutes
| country        = Italy
| language       = [Italian](/source/Italian_language)
| budget         = 
}}
'''''Tragic Hunt''''' ({{langx|it|Caccia tragica}})  is a 1947 Italian [drama film](/source/drama_film) directed by [Giuseppe De Santis](/source/Giuseppe_De_Santis) and starring [Vivi Gioi](/source/Vivi_Gioi), [Andrea Checchi](/source/Andrea_Checchi) and [Carla Del Poggio](/source/Carla_Del_Poggio). It was part of the wave of postwar [neorealist](/source/Italian_neorealism) films. It was one of two produced by the [ANPI](/source/ANPI) movement along with ''[The Sun Still Rises](/source/The_Sun_Still_Rises)'' from the previous year.

Future filmmakers [Michelangelo Antonioni](/source/Michelangelo_Antonioni) and [Carlo Lizzani](/source/Carlo_Lizzani) co-wrote the script. The film's sets were designed by the [art director](/source/art_director) [Carlo Egidi](/source/Carlo_Egidi).

==Plot==
After the [Second World War](/source/World_War_II), in [Emilia-Romagna](/source/Emilia-Romagna), Italy, a cooperative has been founded by peasants. War has destroyed the country. A group of bandits, with former Nazi-collaborator Daniela, known as '[Lili Marlene](/source/Lili_Marlene)' (Vivi Gioi), holds up the truck where the money of the cooperative is travelling. All the peasants search for the thieves in a tragic hunt.

==Cast==

*[Vivi Gioi](/source/Vivi_Gioi) as Daniela 'Lili Marlene'
*[Andrea Checchi](/source/Andrea_Checchi) as Alberto
*[Carla Del Poggio](/source/Carla_Del_Poggio) as Giovanna
*[Massimo Girotti](/source/Massimo_Girotti) as Michele
*[Vittorio Duse](/source/Vittorio_Duse) as Giuseppe
*[Checco Rissone](/source/Checco_Rissone) as Mimì
*[Umberto Sacripante](/source/Umberto_Sacripante) as The lame man 
*[Folco Lulli](/source/Folco_Lulli) as A farmer
*[Michele Riccardini](/source/Michele_Riccardini) as The [maresciallo](/source/maresciallo)
*[Eugenia Grandi](/source/Eugenia_Grandi) as Sultana
*[Piero Lulli](/source/Piero_Lulli) as The driver 
*[Ermanno Randi](/source/Ermanno_Randi) as Andrea 
*[Enrico Tacchetti](/source/Enrico_Tacchetti) as The accountant
*[Carlo Lizzani](/source/Carlo_Lizzani) as The veteran holding a speech

==Awards==
It won two [Nastro d'Argento](/source/Nastro_d'Argento) as Best Director and Best Supporting Actress ([Vivi Gioi](/source/Vivi_Gioi)).

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0039233}}
{{Giuseppe De Santis}}

Category:1947 films
Category:Films set in Italy
Category:1947 Italian-language films
Category:Italian black-and-white films
Category:1947 drama films
Category:Films about social realism
Category:Films directed by Giuseppe De Santis
Category:Films with screenplays by Cesare Zavattini
Category:Italian drama films
Category:1947 directorial debut films
Category:1947 Italian films
Category:Italian-language drama films

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