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{{short description|1955 film by Francesco Maselli}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Abandoned
| image = GliSbandati.jpg
| image_size =
| caption =
| director = [[Francesco Maselli]]
| producer = [[Antonio Pellizari]]
| story =Eriprando Visconti
| screenplay =[[Eriprando Visconti]] Francesco Maselli Ageo Savioli
| starring = [[Lucia Bosé]] [[Isa Miranda]] [[Jean-Pierre Mocky]] [[Anthony Steffen|Antonio De Teffè]] [[Giuliano Montaldo]] [[Fernando Birri]] [[Terence Hill|Mario Girotti]]
| music = [[Giovanni Fusco]]
| cinematography = [[Gianni Di Venanzo]]
| editing = {{ill|Antonietta Zita|it|Antonietta Zita}}
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1955|08|29|Venice Film Festival}}
| runtime = 102 minutes
| country = Italy
| language = Italian
| budget =
| gross =
}}
[[File:Sbandati-Bosé.png|thumb|Lucia Bosé as ''Lucia'']]
'''''Abandoned''''' ({{lang-it|Gli sbandati}}) is a 1955 [[Cinema of Italy|Italian]] film set during the aftermath of the [[Allied invasion of Italy]] in 1943 during [[World War II]]. The film entered the 1955 [[Venice Film Festival]], where it received a special mention.<ref>{{cite book|title=Sight and sound, Volumes 24-25|publisher=British Film Institute}}</ref> It is the directorial debut of [[Francesco Maselli]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Gino Moliterno|title=The A to Z of Italian Cinema|year=2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press, 2009|isbn=978-0810868960}}</ref> The music was composed by [[Giovanni Fusco]] and arranged by [[Ennio Morricone]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Gli Sbandati|url=http://www.chimai.com/index.cfm?module=MOV&id=1825724|accessdate=3 July 2016|newspaper=Chi Mai}}</ref>

In 2008 the film was selected to enter the list of the [[100 film italiani da salvare|100 Italian films to be saved]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Massimo Borriello|title=Cento film e un'Italia da non dimenticare|url=http://www.movieplayer.it/film/articoli/cento-film-e-un-italia-da-non-dimenticare_4261/|accessdate=19 April 2013|newspaper=Movieplayer|date=4 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare|url=http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/08_febbraio_28/elenco_cento_film_d83cacd8-e5ce-11dc-ab61-0003ba99c667.shtml|accessdate=19 April 2013|newspaper=[[Corriere della Sera]]|date=28 February 2022}}</ref>

==Plot==
In the summer of 1943, Countess Luisa and her son Andrea left [[Milan]] to escape the Allied [[Bombing of Milan in World War II|bombings]] of the city and retired to their country villa, where they hosted two of Andrea's peers, his cousin Carlo, the son of a [[National Fascist Party|Fascist]] official who fled to Switzerland, and the friend Ferruccio, son of an army officer engaged in war. The three young people pass the time in the dolce far niente, sunbathing along the river, only vaguely aware of the ongoing conflict, thanks to the broadcasts of Radio London. They begin to become aware of the seriousness of the situation when displaced people arrive from the city and Andrea, out of weakness and not out of solidarity, is forced to accept to host some in the villa, to the annoyance of his mother.

Among the displaced there is the young worker Lucia, whom Andrea falls in love with and thanks to whom he finally comes out of his golden world to face the tragic reality that surrounds them and take responsibility. In the absence of his mother, to whom he is linked by a morbid relationship and towards whom he is in complete awe, he seems to mature and, when Italian soldiers arrive in the village, escaped from a German convoy that was taking them to the labor camps, he finds the courage to hide them in the villa, supported by Carlo and Lucia. But Ferruccio tells what is happening to the old fascist authorities of the country, who inform the Germans.

Having discovered the boy's denunciation, the runaway soldiers flee by truck towards the mountains and the partisans. Lucia, Carlo and Andrea should go with them, but the arrival of the countess, accompanied by a German officer, extinguishes all the initiative of the last, who agrees to stay with her and abandon her companions to their fate. As he drives away, safe, Andrea sees the German soldiers searching the villa and then when he hears gunshots he realizes, with desperation, that Lucia has been killed.

==Cast==
*[[Lucia Bosé]] - Lucia
*[[Isa Miranda]] - Contessa Luisa
*[[Jean-Pierre Mocky]] - Andrea
*[[Goliarda Sapienza]] - Lucia's aunt
*[[Anthony Steffen|Antonio De Teffè]] - Carlo
*{{ill|Leonardo Botta|it|Leonardo Botta}} - Ferruccio
*[[Marco Guglielmi]] - Scattered soldiers' officer
*[[Giuliano Montaldo]] - Scattered soldier from Tuscany
*[[Ivy Nicholson]] - Andrea's girlfriend
*[[Fernando Birri]] - Scattered soldiers' lieutenant
*{{ill|Franco Lantieri|it|Franco Lantieri}} - Scattered soldier from Veneto
*[[Giulio Paradisi]]
*{{ill|Joop van Hulzen|it|Joop van Hulzen}}
*[[Terence Hill|Mario Girotti]]
*[[Manfred Freyberger|Manfred Freidbager]]
*[[Bianca Maria Ferrari]]
*[[Dori Ghezzi]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0048585|Abandoned}}

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[[Category:Italian war drama films]]
[[Category:1955 films]]
[[Category:Italian Campaign of World War II films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Francesco Maselli]]
[[Category:Films scored by Giovanni Fusco]]
[[Category:1950s war drama films]]
[[Category:Italian black-and-white films]]
[[Category:1950s Italian films]]

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