Cirrus

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Film Details - Incorporated Television Company ; Opera Film Produzione ; Orbi S.A. , 1981

Producers:

William R. Forman (executive producer).

Erwin C. Dietrich and Paul Maslansky (producers).

Renzo Rossellini (co-producers).

Production Companies:

Incorporated Television Company.

Opera Film Produzione.

Orbi S.A.

Director of Photography:

Marcello Gatti.

Editors:

Claudio M. Cutry and Katina Zinner.

Music:

Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast:

Including Franco Nero (Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci), Anthony Quinn (Bruno Manzini), Martin Balsam (Captain Steffanelli), Sybil Danning (Lili Anders), Christopher Lee (Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence), Cleavon Little (Major Carl Malinowski, USMC), Paul Smith (The Surgeon), John Steiner (Captain Roditi), Claudia Cardinale (Elena Leporello), Eli Wallach (General Leporello), Renzo Palmer (Carabinieri Major Giorgione), Anita Strindberg (Princess Faubiani), and Marino Masé (Captain Rigoli).

Release Dates:

Released in UK in 1981.

Released in Norway and South Africa in 1982.

Released in the USA in 1983.

Released in Portugal, East Germany, and Hungary in 1984.

Released in West Germany in 1985.

Location:

Set in various locations around Italy, including Rome, Milan, and Venice.

Awards:

Avellino Neorealism Film Festival, Best Film (winner), 1983.
Avellino Neorealism Film Festival, Best Screenplay (winner), 1983.

Subjects:

Settings:

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Italy,
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Western Europe, Europe,

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