Il Fornaretto di Venezia

1963 Italian film

Michèle Morgan
Enrico Maria Salerno
Sylva Koscina
Jacques Perrin
Stefania Sandrelli

CinematographyCarlo CarliniEdited byFranco Fraticelli
Solange MoretMusic byArmando Trovajoli

Production
companies

Lux Film
Ultra Film
Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont

Release date

24 August 1963 (1963-08-24)

Running time

110 minutesCountriesItaly
FranceLanguageItalian

Il Fornaretto di Venezia (US TV title: The Scapegoat, French title Le Petit Boulanger de Venise or, alternatively, Le Procès des Doges — as seen on the poster)^[1]^[2] is a 1963 Italian-French^[3] drama film directed by Duccio Tessari who co-wrote the screenplay with Marcello Fondato, based on a novel by Francesco Dall'Ongaro.

Plot

It tells the story of 16th century Venice where a young worker is sentenced to death on the suspicion of attacking a noble.

Cast

Jacques Perrin as Pietro, il fornaretto
Michèle Morgan as Princess Sofia
Enrico Maria Salerno as Lorenzo Barbo
Sylva Koscina as Clemenza, Barbo's Wife
Stefania Sandrelli as Anella
Gastone Moschin as Consigliere Garzone
Fred Williams as Alvise
Mario Brega
Renato Terra

References

^ "Le Procès des doges - DvdToile". dvdtoile.com. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
^ AlloCine, Le Petit boulanger de Venise (in French), retrieved 2020-08-15
^ "Il FORNARETTO DI VENEZIA (1963)". BFI. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016. Retrieved 2020-08-15.