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IN TRE VERSO L'AVVENTURA

Category: Edition 1973

Synopsis
To enable father to buy a tractor, the little Ethiopian Mebratù leave his home - with Dum Dum the donkey and Dingo the dog - to find a treasure pointed at the map which sold him a bookseller. During the journey, he fell in a ravine. After a long and incredible adventure, he found the needed money to realize his dream and the one of the father.

Original Title IN TRE VERSO L'AVVENTURA
Italian Title IN TRE VERSO L'AVVENTURA
Category Official Competition
Festival Awards Best Feature Film (1973)
Section Official Competition
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 105'
Production Year 1973
Nationality Italy
Directed by Pino Passalacqua
Screenplay Ottavio Jemma, Bruno Di Geronimo, Pino Passalacqua
Script Stefan Topaldjikoff
Director of photography Angelo Filippini
Editor Giacomo Callegari
Production Design Elena Ricci Poccetto
Costume Design Elena Ricci Poccetto
Music Gino Peguri
Main cast Mebratù Maconnen Araia (Mebratù)
Biricti Tareche (Biricti)
Tekle Negassi (Mebratù's father)
Goiye Melles (Mebratù's mother)
Giuseppe Caffo (bookseller)
Bruno Dalmasso (white hunter)
Angel Flying (cap. Bergson)
Head of production Giorgio Baldi

---regista--- pino passalacquaPINO PASSALACQUA
Born in Sant'Eufemia d'Aspromonte in 1936, Pino Passalacqua is a director and screenwriter, for cinema and television. Antonio Petrucci's co-director in 1963 documentary on the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, he was the screenwriter in "Solo contro tutti" (1965, directed by Antonio Del Amo), he directed his first feature film, "In tre verso l'avventura", in 1973; in the same year, with this movie he won the Gryphon Award in the third edition of Giffoni Film Festival.

 

production
Istituto Luce
(Italy)

Italian distribution
INC
(Italy)