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il federale, ennio morricone, digitmovies
16.94

 
il federale
(1961)


composer: ennio morricone

label: digitmovies

AKA: the fascist

total duration: 00.38.47

soundtrack style: comedy drama



   


tracks

01. Titoli
02. Combattimento
03. Manovre Grottesche
04. Tema Di Bonafé
05. Deportazione
06. Colloquio Delle Fragole
07. Marcia Del Viaggio
08. Equilibrismo Di Arcovazzi E Fuga Dai Partigiani
09. Arcovazzi E Bonafé In Viaggio
10. Tema Dell'Auto Anfibia
11. Ritrovamento
12. Marcia Del Viaggio (Ripresa)
13. Desiderio Di Matilde
14. Fuga Di Bonafé
15. Pullman In Avaria
16. Inseguimento
17. Campo Minato
18. Tema Di Bonafé (Ripresa)
19. Arcangelo Bardacci
20. Bonafé Al Convento
21. La Fine Del Viaggio
22. Finale

 
 
further information
Limited edition
12 page colour booklet containing introduction, synopsis, cast list and reproduction of original poster art
 
description
Digitmovies proudly wants to celebrate the 45 years of legendary Film Music by composer Ennio Morricone releasing on CD the complete score composed and orchestrated by Maestro Ennio Morricone in year 1961 for Luciano Salce's Il federale (The fascist) starring Ugo Tognazzi.
This Cd release is again possible thanks to the big help of C.A.M. friends who did keep for until today the session mono master tapes and Maestro Ennio Morricone himself who authorized every selected track.
This score is historically very important cause it represents Maestro Morricone's absolute first Film Scoring assignment and also the first record of his so big discography.
In fact in year 1961 RCA released a (Hyper Top rare today!) EP single containing some selections from the score (mostly editings of various takes that were really cut versions, while here we have restored these takes, presenting them for the first time in their uncut form.
The tracks of the original single are here all enclosed: Tracks 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 16, 17, 22 (while the track 6 called Colloquio delle fragole was a mistaken title featuring on the EP single different music that did not correspond at all to the right film scene, so apart the track title, the right music appears here on record for the first time.
Ennio Morricone has written an orchestral score (conducted by Pierluigi Urbini) dominated by a lovely March called Marcia del viaggio, a funny military theme like a real Scherzo for Orchestra, introduced in Titoli (tr. 1) and then reprised with variations in the score (tr. 7, 9, 12).
The other main theme is called Tema di Bonafè for the character of Professor Bonafè (Georges Wilson) (tr. 4 & tr. 18) a mystic motif with a semi-religious flavour.
The score alternates humoresque music passages (tr. 4, 5, 11, 14, 15) to other dramatic ones (tr. 5, tr. 21).
This score written by a young Morricone is a music jewel containing many elements so typical of his later style that he has delevoped and matured during the following four decades and half.
Thank you M° Morricone for 45 years of legendary Film Music!
 
story

The Fascist (Il Federale) is a comedy set in 1944 Italy.
Dedicated fascist Ugo Tognazzi is sent to capture anti-Mussolini professor Georges Wilson.
He accomplishes his mission, but both captor and captive have a hard time getting home.
After numerous comic misadventures in Tognazzi's motorcycle, the two men are caught in an air raid, the result being that both lose their clothing.
Arriving in Rome, Tognazzi discovers that the city has fallen to the Allies and now it is he, the fascist, who is in danger of capture and incarceration.
Professor Wilson, who has grown fond of the essentially decent Tognazzi, rescues his ex-captor from an angry mob.
Filmed in 1961, The Fascist was finally released in the US four years later.

Cast:
Ugo Tognazzi, Georges Wilson, Gianrico Tedeschi, Elsa Vazzoler, Mireille Granelli, Gianni Agus, Stefania Sandrelli, Renzo Palmer, Luciano Salce, Franco Giacobini

Director:
Luciano Salce

 

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