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1958 film directed by Alberto Lattuada
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La tempesta (internationally released as Tempest) is a 1958 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada. It is based on A History of Pugachev (1834) and the 1836 novel The Captain's Daughter, both by Alexander Pushkin. For this film Lattuada was awarded a David di Donatello for Best Director.
“I have great comfort from this fellow. Methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.”
“All lost! to prayers, to prayers! All lost!”
“Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground — long heath, brown furze, anything. The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death.”
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
“Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They say there's but five upon this isle: we are three of them; if th' other two be brain'd like us, the state totters.”
“He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy upon us!”
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