Traffic Jam (film)

Traffic Jam
Film poster
Directed by	Luigi Comencini
Produced by	Anna Maria Clementelli Silvio Clementelli Michael Fengler
Written by	Luigi Comencini Ruggero Maccari Bernardino Zapponi
Starring	Annie Girardot
Music by	Fiorenzo Carpi
Cinematography	Ennio Guarnieri
Edited by	Nino Baragli
Release dates	12 January 1979 (1979-01-12)
Running time	121 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Traffic Jam (Italian: L'ingorgo - Una storia impossibile) is a 1979 Italian satirical comedy-drama film directed by Luigi Comencini.^[1] It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

Plot

In a main thoroughfare on the outskirts of Rome, thousands of motorists are stuck in terrible traffic jam for twenty-four hours. In a stretch of road there is a variety of characters whose behaviour becomes strange. There is a selfish and hypocritical entrepreneur in a luxury car; a young hippie girl harassed and then raped by some dandies and a family from Naples on the way to Rome to abort their daughter. There is also an old couple that argues constantly; a patient that dies in the ambulance; an old actor staying in a small country house near the road; a female globetrotter who is hitch-hiking to the stopped cars and some young members of Far Left Wing among others. The day the traffic jam clears, the entrepreneur hires the girl from Naples for a record company in exchange for a sexual service. The girl is raped and then comforted by a man who wants to avenge her but then gives up. The rapists leave quietly once more.

Cast

Annie Girardot as Irene
Fernando Rey as Carlo
Miou-Miou as Angela
Gérard Depardieu as Franco
Ugo Tognazzi as Professor
Marcello Mastroianni as Marco Montefoschi
Stefania Sandrelli as Teresa
Alberto Sordi as De Benedetti
Orazio Orlando as Ferreri
Gianni Cavina as Pompeo
Harry Baer as Mario
Ángela Molina as Martina
Ciccio Ingrassia as The Dying Man
Patrick Dewaere as Young man
Giovannella Grifeo as Germana
José Sacristán as The Priest

References

↑ "NY Times: Traffic Jam". NY Times.com. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
↑ "Festival de Cannes: Traffic Jam". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-24.

External links

Traffic Jam at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Luigi Comencini

Hey Boy (1948)
The Emperor of Capri (1949)
Behind Closed Shutters (1951)
Heidi (1952)
Girls Marked Danger (1953)
La valigia dei sogni (1953)
Bread, Love and Dreams (1953)
Bread, Love and Jealousy (1954)
The Belle of Rome (1955)
The Window to Luna Park (1957)
Husbands in the City (1957)
Mogli pericolose (1958)
Le sorprese dell'amore (1959)
And That on Monday Morning (1959)
Everybody Go Home (1960)
On the Tiger's Back (1961)
The Police Commissioner (1962)
Bebo's Girl (1963)
Three Nights of Love (1964)
My Wife (1964)
Don Camillo in Moscow (1965)
Six Days a Week (1965)
Le bambole (1965)
Incompreso (1966)
Italian Secret Service (1968)
Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969)
Senza sapere niente di lei (1969)
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972)
The Scientific Cardplayer (1972)
Somewhere Beyond Love (1974)
Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974)
The Sunday Woman (1975)
Basta che non si sappia in giro (1976)
Strange Occasion (1976)
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
The Cat (1977)
Traffic Jam (1978)
Eugenio (1980)
Cercasi Gesù (1982)
Cuore (1984)
La Storia (1986)
A Boy from Calabria (1987)
La Bohème (1988)
Merry Christmas... Happy New Year (1989)
Marcellino (1992)

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