Two skilled Italian architects Vincent Spano and Joaquim de Almeida journey to the US to make enough money to buy back their father's building restoration business. After several wrong turns, they end up designing the giant elephant statues for D.W. Griffiths' Intolerance! (He's played by Charles Dance, the father by Omero Antonutti.)
Despite finding love with dancers Greta Scacchi and Desiree Becker, tragedy overtakes with a death in childbirth, and a bleak and quite unexpected World War II finale.
It wasn't quite as good as I was hoping it would be. Written With Antonioni's collaborator Tonino Guerra.
Good music by Nicola Piovani. Photographed by Giuseppe 'Beppe' Lanci (Nostalgia, Caro Diario).
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