This is a region-free DVD+R without case or artwork.
In Italian with English subtitles. This is a VHS transfer. Also known as
Love of a Clown and
I Pagliacci.
Pagliacci was originally released in Italy as
Il Pagliacci--and rightly so, since this is a film adaptation of Leoncavallo's one-act opera. Famed baritone Tito Gobbi dons clown suit and cries his eyes out as Pagliacci, the provincial entertainer who takes in a homeless woman, only to be betrayed by the girl and his best friend. The girl is played by 21-year-old
Gina Lollobrigida, who at the time of the film's release was praised by the more impressionable critics for her marvelous singing; when the picture is seen today, even a preschooler can deduce that Gina's voice is dubbed. Filmed on location in the Calabrian Mountains,
Pagliacci runs a brief 60 minutes--exactly the time-span of the original opera.
