Captain Corelli's Mandolin

August 17, 2001 0 By Fans
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Plot

When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander.

Release Year: 2001

Rating: 5.8/10 (18,071 voted)

Critic's Score: 36/100

Director:
John Madden

Stars: Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt

Storyline
In 1941, Italy allies with Germany and ruthlessly conquers the much weaker country of Greece. On a remote Greek island, an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor. In 1943, however, after Italy surrenders to the Allies and changes sides in the war, Captain Corelli must defend the Greek island against a German invasion.

Writers: Shawn Slovo, Louis de Bernières

Cast:

Penélope Cruz

Pelagia


John Hurt

Dr. Iannis


Christian Bale

Mandras


Irene Papas

Drosoula


Gerasimos Skiadaressis

Mr. Stamatis


Aspasia Kralli

Mrs. Stamatis


Mihalis Giannatos

Kokolios


Dimitris Kaberidis

Father Aresenios

(as Dimitris Kamperidis)


Pietro Sarubbi

Velisarios, The Strongman

(as Pedro Sarubbi)


Viki Maragaki

Eleni, Pelagia's Friend


Joanna-Daria Adraktas

Young Lemoni


Ira Tavlaridis

Older Lemoni


Katerina Didaskalou

Lemoni's Mother


Emilios Chilakis

Dimitris


Nikos Karathanos

Spiros



Details

Official Website:
Bac Films [France] (French) |
Buena Vista Int. (UK) (Flash only) |

Release Date: 17 August 2001

Filming Locations: Kefallonia island, Greece



Box Office Details

Budget: $57,000,000

(estimated)

Opening Weekend: £1,722,799
(UK)
(6 May 2001)
(379 Screens)

Gross: $62,112,895
(Worldwide)



Technical Specs

Runtime:



Did You Know?

Trivia:

Writer Louis de Bernières rewrote the book approximately 35 times to ensure he had got details told to him by locals as accurate as possible.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers):
Captain Corelli says "Mussolini has surrendered to America and Britain, not Germany". Benito Mussolini didn't surrender to anybody; he was arrested by his fellow Fascist Party Council members, supported by some Italian Generals and the King of Italy. After he was rescued by Adolf Hitler's SS commandos, he continued to fight the allies.

Quotes:

Iannis:
What on earth you think you are doing?

Corelli:
I'm feeling the orchestra.



User Review

Please read the book instead.

Rating:

Ok, it's a given that you cannot make a good movie from a good book.
(Unless
you make it a trilogy 🙂 But comparing the book Corelli's Mandolin to
this
movie it's clear how much has to be cut to fit a screenplay. The book is
very funny in places, romantic (of course), dramatic. What's left of it
in
the film is inexplicable romance — as other reviewers have remarked,
it's
unclear why she falls in love with the italian while her betrothed is
still
around, and I have no idea why this was changed from the book — and some
gratuitous gunning and bombing scenes, more than in the book which
derives
its power from not hammering on the obvious points. Whole characters are
cut: Carlo has maybe 10 seconds screen time, while in the book he has a
whole story line that runs several chapters.