The Challenge (1958)
1h 27m
Running Time
September 11, 1958Release Date
The Challenge (1958)
1h 27m
Running Time
September 11, 1958Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
Vito Polara is ambitious and wants to get as more power and money as possible. He decides to leave the cigarette smuggling and try to get the total control of the regional fruit and vegetable distribution considered more profitable. He looks for the help of a rural crime Boss.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Rosanna Schiaffino
Assunta
José Suárez
Vito Polara
Nino Vingelli
Gennaro
Decimo Cristiani
Raffaele
José Jaspe
Raffaele
Tina Castigliano
Madre di Vito
Francesco Rosi
Director
Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Writer
Pasquale Cennamo
Fernando Ajello
Elsa Valentino Ascoli
Madre di Assunta
Enzo Provenzale
Writer
Franco Cristaldi
Producer
Ubaldo Granata
Califano
Roman Vlad
Composer
Ezio Vergari
Antonio
Gianni Di Venanzo
Cinematographer
Rosita Pisano
La lavandaia
Mario Serandrei
Editor
Nando Cicero
Second Assistant Director
Giulio Questi
First Assistant Director
Erico Menczer
Camera Operator
Otello Spila
Assistant Camera
Roberto Pariante
Second Assistant Director
Marilù Carteny
Costume Design
Ovidio Del Grande
Sound
Oscar Di Santo
Sound
Gianni Cecchin
Production Secretary
Marcello Ceccarelli
Makeup Artist
Gino Millozza
Production Supervisor
Francesco Manco
Production Secretary
Marisa Letti
Assistant Editor
Eva Latini
Assistant Editor
Franco Mancini
Production Design
Ermanno Consolazione
Still Photographer
Umberto Della Monica
Production Secretary
Pasquale Tartaro
Mario Laurentino
Giosué Ippolito
Ferdinando Gerra
Renato Terra
Guglielmo Spoletini
Elsa Fiore
Nello Ascoli
Alfredo Visco
Lia Thomas
Gennaro Di Napoli
Guido Cante
Salvatore Cafiero
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
La sfida ("the challenge") is a 1958 Italian film by Francesco Rosi. It stars José Suárez as a gang leader who challenges a local Camorra boss for supremacy. It won the Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
The film is based on the real-life story of Camorra boss Pasquale Simonetti, known as Pasquale 'e Nola, and his wife and former beauty queen Pupetta Maresca, played by Rosanna Schiaffino.It was produced by the Italian companies Cinecittà and Vides Cinematografica and the Spanish companies Lux Film and Suevia Films.