:49:03
As soon as one tries
to do something new,
:49:07
something that is out of
mainstream cinema,
:49:12
out of these pitiful movies,
:49:16
one gets rejected.
:49:18
For a lot of reasons.
:49:20
Maybe because Ruggero is nice,
:49:23
because people like him,
or maybe for something else...
:49:27
Art then becomes totally different.
:49:32
It was expectable that
a young director
:49:37
who tries to make a name
can get attacked and
:49:41
that censorship breaks out
:49:46
and cuts a lot of things...
What we see nowadays
:49:50
is much more pitiful than
it was back then.
:49:58
I learnt everything indirectly
:50:00
because I was proven innocent
:50:06
before being charged.
:50:09
The authors were the ones
to go to trial.
:50:12
We are not considered.
So I
:50:17
escape the denunciation.
:50:22
I was just an executant.
:50:25
I faced no judge.
:50:32
The film was done, it was
already pre-sold to United Artists.
:50:39
The mistake of the producers
was to do no premiere
:50:44
in small provincial villages,
as usual.
:50:48
They tried,
:50:52
probably under pressure
from United Artists,
:50:55
to make a premiere in Milano.
:50:59
A judge from Milano,
who was quite resolute,