--- title: 'Swept Away (1974)' type: 'film' director: 'Lina Wertmüller' released: '1974-12-19' runtime_minutes: 114 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Comedy' countries: - 'Italy' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/swept-away-1974' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073817/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Swept Away (1974) 1974 · 114 min · Drama, Comedy · Italy Original title: Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto ## Synopsis Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August, commonly shortened to Swept Away, is a 1974 Italian romantic adventure comedy-drama film written and directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato. The film follows a wealthy woman whose yachting vacation with friends in the Mediterranean Sea takes an unexpected turn when she and one of the boat's crew are separated from the others and stranded on a desert island. The woman's capitalist beliefs and the man's communist convictions clash, but during their struggle to survive, their social roles are reversed. ## Credits - **Director:** [Lina Wertmüller](https://cinepixo.com/people/lina-wertmuller) - **Screenplay:** [Lina Wertmüller](https://cinepixo.com/people/lina-wertmuller) - **Original Music Composer:** [Piero Piccioni](https://cinepixo.com/people/piero-piccioni) - **Director of Photography:** [Ennio Guarnieri](https://cinepixo.com/people/ennio-guarnieri), [Stefano Ricciotti](https://cinepixo.com/people/stefano-ricciotti) ## Cast - [Giancarlo Giannini](https://cinepixo.com/people/giancarlo-giannini) - [Isa Danieli](https://cinepixo.com/people/isa-danieli) - [Mariangela Melato](https://cinepixo.com/people/mariangela-melato) - [Lorenzo Piani](https://cinepixo.com/people/lorenzo-piani) - [Riccardo Salvino](https://cinepixo.com/people/riccardo-salvino) - [Eros Pagni](https://cinepixo.com/people/eros-pagni) - [Aldo Puglisi](https://cinepixo.com/people/aldo-puglisi) - [Vittorio Fanfoni](https://cinepixo.com/people/vittorio-fanfoni) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/swept-away-1974 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1365); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.