Document Z-3

Document Z-3
Directed by	Alfredo Guarini
Written by	Sandro De Feo Ercole Patti Corrado Sofia Piero Tellini Alfredo Guarini
Starring	Isa Miranda Claudio Gora Luis Hurtado Guglielmo Barnabò
Cinematography	Gábor Pogány
Edited by	Dolores Tamburini
Music by	Eugenio Steccanella
Production company	Artisti Associati
Distributed by	Artisti Associati
Release date	12 April 1942
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Document Z-3 (Italian: Documento Z-3) is a 1942 Italian spy film directed by Alfredo Guarini and starring Isa Miranda, Claudio Gora and Luis Hurtado. It was shot at the Fert Studios in Turin and on location at an airfield which later became Turin Airport. The films sets were designed by the art director Boris Bilinsky. It was one of three Miranda films directed by Guarini that helped re-establish her in Italian cinema following her return from a largely unsuccessful spell in Hollywood. Many critics were not impressed with the film, feeling that Miranda had not recovered the spontaneity of her pre-Hollywood films. This is considered the first production on which Federico Fellini worked, uncredited, as a screenwriter.

Synopsis

In Yugoslavia, Sandra Morini, a young woman of Italian Dalmatian background is drawn into the world of espionage by Paolo a spy in Yugoslav intelligence but in reality a double agent working for Italy. She is to steal a secret document from the Russian commissar Petrov that reveals that Yugoslavia's public pro-Axis stance conceals a secret alliance with Stalin's Soviet Union. She then escapes from Zagreb heading for the safety of Venice.

Cast

• Isa Miranda as Sandra Morini
• Claudio Gora as Paolo Sullich
• Luis Hurtado as Soviet Commissioner Petrov
• Guglielmo Barnabò as Kavelich
• Tina Lattanzi as La Semenov
• Amedeo Trilli as a Slavic official
• Carlo Tamberlani
• Aroldo Tieri
• Nicola Timofeiev

Bibliography

• Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.

External links

• Document Z-3 at IMDb