I racconti di Ernest Hemingway

1975 • 1 Season • Returning Series

The series consisted of two dramas carefully selected by Calasso, based on Ernest Hemingway's The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber and Other Stories (originally published in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, 1938): The Undefeated and The Killers. The first was set in the Spain of bullfighters, while the second was set in the underworld of the American provinces. The sets were completely recreated in the studios of the Rai Production Center in Naples.

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Episodes

E1. The Undefeated

60 min

This episode merges the title story with The Capital of the World to explore Hemingway's theme of being "destroyed but not defeated." The plot follows...

E2. The Killers

60 min

Filmed in a stark, minimalist style, this episode adapts Hemingway's famous narrative about a boxer who refused to throw a rigged fight. The entire pl...