The yacht holiday of a group of rich kids ends in shipwreck when Raffaella forces Gennarino to take her out in a rubber dinghy to join her friends despite the late hour. Lost at sea, the pair wash ashore a desert island, actually Cala Fuili beach in Dorgali (NU). A few kilometres away is Cala Luna (NU), halfway between Baunei and Dorgali, the beach on which most of the film was shot.
On the island, the tables are turned. Gennarino finds shelter and succeeds, with his ‘good manners’, in making Raffaella more cooperative, and a strong attraction blossoms between the pair: the white sand dunes of Capo Comino in Siniscola (NU), were used to shoot the film’s most sensual scenes. Three beaches in the Gulf of Orosei, located just a few kilometres away from one another, were used to represent one single island, wild and unspoiled.
Once the fairy-tale is over the characters return to real life, in which their roles revert back to what they always were: a helicopter shown in the port of Arbatax, Ogliastra (NU), takes Raffaella back to her everyday life, leaving Gennarino to wait for her in vain.
The yacht holiday of a group of rich kids ends in shipwreck when Raffaella forces Gennarino to take her out in a rubber dinghy to join her friends despite the late hour. Lost at sea, the pair wash ashore a desert island, actually Cala Fuili beach in Dorgali (NU). A few kilometres away is Cala Luna (NU), halfway between Baunei and Dorgali, the beach on which most of the film was shot.
On the island, the tables are turned. Gennarino finds shelter and succeeds, with his ‘good manners’, in making Raffaella more cooperative, and a strong attraction blossoms between the pair: the white sand dunes of Capo Comino in Siniscola (NU), were used to shoot the film’s most sensual scenes. Three beaches in the Gulf of Orosei, located just a few kilometres away from one another, were used to represent one single island, wild and unspoiled.
Once the fairy-tale is over the characters return to real life, in which their roles revert back to what they always were: a helicopter shown in the port of Arbatax, Ogliastra (NU), takes Raffaella back to her everyday life, leaving Gennarino to wait for her in vain.
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Mariangela Melato – Gulf of Orosei
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Mariangela Melato, Giancarlo Giannini – Gulf of Orosei
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Giancarlo Giannini, Isa Danieli – Port of Arbatax
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Giancarlo Giannini, Isa Danieli – Port of Arbatax
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Isa Danieli, Giancarlo Giannini – Port of Arbatax
A capricious wealthy woman holidaying on a yacht and an impatient sailor with Communist tendencies working for her find themselves shipwrecked on an island, where their roles are reversed.
