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Won 1 Academy Award (Oscar): Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Won 1 David di Donatello: Best Foreign Actress - Won 1 Golden Globe: Best Supporting Actress - Won 2 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress - Won 1 Fotogramas de Plata: Best Foreign Movie Performer - Won 1 Critics Award, French Syndicate of Cinema Critics: Best Foreign Film - Won 1 Gold Medal, Photoplay Awards - 3 Nomination Golden Globes: Best Motion Picture Actress Drama, Best Original Score, Best Screenplay - 1 Nomination Academy Award (Oscar): Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium - 1 Nomination BAFTA Awards: Best Actress - 1 Nomination Nominated Directors Guild of America Award: Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures - 1 Nomination Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Best Motion Picture - Another Nominations

Rosemary's Baby

Scheda: Nazione: USA - Produzione: William Castle Productions - Distribuzione: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Video, RCA-Columbia Pictures Home Video, CIC Video, De Agostini, Renacimiento - Soggetto: dall'omonimo romanzo di Ira Levin - Sceneggiatura: Roman Polanski - Fotografia: William A. Fraker - Montaggio: Sam O'Steen, Bob Wyman - Art Direction: Joel Schiller - Scenografia: Richard Sylbert - Costumi: Anthea Sylbert - Musiche: Krzysztof Komeda - Effetti speciali: Farciot Edouart - Formato: Panoramica Technicolor - Durata: 136'.

Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Victoria Vetri (come Angela Dorian), Patsy Kelly, Elisha Cook jr., Emmaline Henry, Charles Grodin, Hanna Landy, Philip Leeds, D'Urville Martin, Hope Summers, Marianne Gordon, Wende Wagner, William Castle, Walter Baldwin, Patsy Kelly, Angela Dorian.

Trama e commenti: cinematografo.it - film.spettacolo.alice.it - mymovies.it - it.movies.yahoo.com - wikipedia.org - claudiocolombo.net - alexvisani.com - cinemadelsilenzio.it - kataweb.it: «Rosemary Woodhouse (M. Farrow) sospetta una congiura demoniaca contro la creatura che porta in grembo, organizzata, con la complicità del marito attore (J. Cassavetes), dagli arzilli Castevet (R. Gordon, S. Blackmer), coinquilini-stregoni mimetizzati negli abiti della borghesia di New York. Realtà o psicosi? Il polacco R. Polanski – al suo primo film made in USA dopo 3 britannici – affascinato dal senso di mistero che serpeggia nel romanzo di Ira Levin, ne cava un memorabile esempio di cinema della minaccia e ripropone il tema dell'ambiguità fino a farne la struttura portante della narrazione. È “un incubo cinematografico dove la possibilità di orientarsi tra fantastico e reale è persa sempre, mentre resta a dominare la scena la sensazione di angoscia ridotta al grado zero e perciò ancor più inquietante” (Stefano Rulli). Oscar per Ruth Gordon. Prodotto da William Castle per la Paramount, ebbe un seguito TV: Look What Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976), rititolato Rosemary's Baby II, di nessun interesse».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - entertainment.msn.com - rottentomatoes.com - nytimes.com - filmsite - movies.yahoo.com - findarticles.com - jahsonic.com - allocine.fr - tvguide.com: «Roman Polanski's first American movie and his second masterpiece of horror (Repulsion was released in 1965) is set under the sunny skies of modern-day New York City. There are no creepy characters and no eerie locations, just a happy young couple expecting their first child. Newlyweds Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and unemployed actor Gus (John Cassavetes) have just moved into their new apartment in a gothic Central Park building (shot in the famous Dakota, home of the late John Lennon). Their neighbors, the elderly Minnie (Ruth Gordon) and Roman Castevet (Sidney Blackmer), are friendly but a bit intrusive. Rosemary learns that she is pregnant but feels a strange sense of anxiety. She seems to remember a vague dream in which she was raped by a savage beast. She has mysterious scratches on her stomach. Her doctor prescribes a curious elixir. It's perhaps not surprising that Rosemary becomes fixated by the idea that she has been impregnated by Satan and is now carrying his unholy child in her womb while living among a coven of witches. Truly frightening because so much of it is so plausible, Rosemary's baby is one of the finest examples of modern horror, a milestone in the evolution of the genre. Although the subject matter is ultimately supernatural, the treatment is very realistic. Perhaps the film's most disturbing aspect is that the fears and anxiety that Rosemary experiences initially seem like an understandable response for a neurasthenic young woman to have when an "alien" being is growing within her. The brilliance of the film is that it takes this realistic basis and builds upon it with supernatural metaphors that make pregnancy a rich and strange condition».

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