Versilia, the 60's and the movies that made history
Three films that have nourished the fame of Versilia
Forte dei Marmi has always been a unique and exclusive place, where the most luxurious properties on the Tuscan coast are located between the sea and the pine forest. A place where you forget the passing of time, a special place suspended between past and future. Here the mountains embrace the sea, culture is combined with good taste and luxury and the territory is a source of inspiration for various forms of art. Among the many artistic manifestations, Versilia has often also been the main location for various films, including foreign ones, thanks to the particularity and versatility of its territory.
The period of greatest splendor, Versilia had it in the 60s. At that time, actors, celebrities, politicians, entrepreneurs and all the Italian and other "good life" frequented the luxurious villas and prestigious summer residences. They poured onto the sandy beaches and the clear sea and above all into the trendy nightclubs such as La Capannina, the main theater of perhaps one of the most popular films shot in those years.
Sapore di Mare
The idea of ??narrating in a film the friendships and loves of a group of young people on vacation in Forte dei Marmi in the hot summer of 1964 comes from the imagination of the brothers Enrico and Carlo Vanzina. In this case, seeing the film I recognize the wonderful Italian music of the 60s as the absolute protagonist, sonic emotions that travel in splendid synergy with the images and events of the actors recruited with intelligence and skill by the director and the wonderful luxury villas they make. as a background to the amorous intertwining. Between games, more or less successful, parties on the beach or in the exclusive family villas, little consumed love adventures and unfulfilled promises, after twenty years some members of the group will find themselves at the tables of the Capannina di Franceschi, the most fashionable place in the Versilia.
Another theater widely used as a backdrop for native and international films, our Apuan Alps, with its majestic peaks and a unique view of the entire coast.
Miracle in Sant'Anna
In the film, many panoramas of the Apuan Alps, the villages and hilly hamlets of Stazzema. With "Miracolo a Sant'Anna", the American director Spike Lee made one of his strongest and most powerful films in Italy, telling with horror and dismay the massacre of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, and with emotion tinged with anger, the tragic fate of a battalion of "Buffalo Soldiers" on the Tuscan front. These are the African American soldiers who made a decisive contribution to the liberation of our country and therefore to achieve the final victory over Nazi-fascism. This film has created very long controversies precisely in the area where the story takes place, as the fictional and imaginative reconstruction of a real event. In fact, many of those who have really experienced the sad reality, believe that it took place in a somewhat different way, as the film tells of facts not so distant in the years and that many of the real protagonists still have a vivid memory of it.
Vita Difficile
Shows the beach and nightlife of the early 1960s. It's A Difficult Life (1961), with an amazing Alberto Sordi walking on the beach in a dark suit, chasing his separated wife to the Costa dei Barbari and Oliviero, taking his son to lunch at the Santa Monica and spitting on the cars passing by on the avenue in sea, in a gray and sad dawn.
Three very different films, united only by a wonderful background that is not only sea, nightlife and luxury villas, but also culture, history and nature, all elements that make our territory unique.
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