The Dress Rehearsal

1968 · 77 MIN · IMDB 6.0 · 35 VOTES · DIR. Romano Scavolini

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Overview

In La prova generale, Carlo (Carlo Cecchi) interviews with a tape machine and a microphone his young lover while the two wander in the beautiful splendour of a wood on the edge of the city.

Dialogue Timeline — 600 lines

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00:00:37 THE DRESS REHEARSAL
00:05:26 ... carry on their education, their work, and their old age so similarly...
00:09:31 Statistics, for example.
00:11:30 And all of this just because we don't ask ourselves questions.
00:13:52 The man that we should be saving is the Negro torn from his village.
00:17:41 ... mad celestial dream-money! Money of hunger and suicide!
00:20:14 Reports with extreme readings, simple discharge, probably discharge.
00:24:46 ... to live...
00:26:57 And you will be nothing more than a ridiculous dummy following a cause that is already lost.
00:30:38 A train entering the station. Listen, listen!
00:33:09 And I say...
00:41:07 In relation to the future lives of others.
00:44:22 He said: "I'll try."
00:45:40 ... I go back over my entire life, from birth until today.
00:48:41 When you're next to me...
00:50:13 ... and with his way of working...
00:51:51 ... might become torn...
00:53:56 Well?
00:59:19 The contempt!
01:05:39 I've lived my life feeling protected.
01:07:02 In this sense I felt as though my absence was like...
01:08:49 I ask myself what we are waiting for.
01:10:39 From beasts born in a cage.
01:12:44 They're just things, and that's all.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed600
Dialogue density7.8 lines / min
First line00:00:37
Final line01:12:44

Production Record

DirectorRomano Scavolini
LanguageItalian
IMDb votes35