1964. Il deserto rosso is set against a forbidding industrial landscape around Ravenna. Monica Vitti plays the part of Giuliana, whose husband, Ugo (Carlo Chionetti), runs a factory. She has suffered some kind of breakdown after being hospitalised as a result of a car crash. She finds herself drawn to Ugo’s handsome associate, Corrado (Richard Harris), who has arrived to recruit a workforce for a mining adventure in south America.
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