Un gioco per Eveline

Un gioco per Eveline (transl. A Game for Eveline) is a 1971 Italian film directed by Marcello Avallone.

Un gioco per Eveline
Directed by	Marcello Avallone
Screenplay by	Marco Guglielmi Stefano Calanchi Marcello Avallone[1]
Story by	Augusto Guglielmi[1]
Produced by	Ernesto Di Fresco[1]
Starring	Emma Costantino Adriana Nicolescu Marco Guglielmi
Cinematography	Aldo Scavarda[1]
Edited by	Paolo Lucignani[1]
Music by	Marcello Giombini[1]
Production company	Diva Cinematografica[1]
Distributed by	Panta Cinematografica
Release date	16 July 1971 (1971-07-16) (Italy)
Running time	85 minutes[1]
Country	Italy[1]

Production

Director Marcello Avallone described his original desire for the film to make a film related to "the Fantastic, I wrote a 'noir', a genre we rarely did in Italy."^[1] Italian film historian and critic Roberto Curti stated that the film was not a film noir, but a ghost story.^[1] According to Erna Schurer, the film was funded by "a mafioso...he used to pay us by putting money inside a newspaper, I remember him coming over in weekends, carrying these small packages..."^[2]

The film was shot in Mondello, Sicilly in 1969.^[3]

Release

It took two years before Un gioco per Eveline was submitted to the Italian Board of Censors.^[2] was distributed theatrically in Italy by Panta Cinematografica on 16 July 1971.^[1] The film grossed a total of 43,833,000 Italian lire on its domestic release.^[1] Avallone was so disappointed by the results of the film, that he gave up on film and returned to television documentaries until the film Cugine mie in 1976.^[2]