Carlo Ponti Filmography

Born:: December 11, 1913 in Magenta, Italy
Occupation:: Producer
Biography:: Italian mega-producer Carlo Ponti's resumé reads not only like a checklist of the golden highlights of postwar European cinema, but as a testament to the creative vision of a maverick -- a filmmaking revolutionary defiantly unafraid to take enormous career risks. In the final analysis, Ponti's...Read More

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Una Giornata Particolare

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd

Synopsis: The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbor Mastroianni. As the day segues Read More

1977
The Cassandra Crossing

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: This bizarre entry into the disaster film genre concerns a group of hapless passengers aboard a transcontinental luxury train who are infected with a viral plague by a group of terrorists. Burt Lancaster plays military man Mackenzie, who wants to send the train across a rickety bridge so all the Read More

12/18/76
Down and Dirty

Crew: Producer

Actors: Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: Down & Dirty was originally titled Brutti, sporchi e cativi in Italy. That translates literally to "dirty, nasty and bad", in reference to the lower-class characters and surroundings in this Ettore Scola film. Scola zeroes in on a particularly offensive Roman family. The stingy patriarch, Nino Manfredi Read More

9/23/76
L'Infermiera

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this Italian sex comedy, a wealthy, widowed count has a heart attack and must have bed rest and no stress to recover. His avaricious relatives would rather see him dead. Knowing that he is a lusty fellow unable to resist a woman's charms, they hire a bombshell of a sexy nurse to meet his every Read More

12/19/75
Gente di Rispetto

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The Italian Man with a Flower in His Mouth bears no relation to the Luigi Pirandello one-act play of the same title. Also known as Flower in His Mouth, and The Masters this thriller stars Jennifer O'Neill as an American schoolteacher, newly arrived in Sicily. No sooner has she assumed her duties Read More

10/30/75
Cipolla Colt

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The title tells all in this western. The trouble is that it is difficult to tell whether or not the film is a serious venture or a parody. There is certainly plenty of violence. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

8/25/75
Flesh for Frankenstein

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Monique Van Vooren, Arno Juerging, Srdjan Zelenovic

Synopsis: Incest, necrophilia, and Joe Dallesandro? It must be Andy Warhol. Warhol did indeed co-produce this 1973 schlock spectacular -- originally presented in 3D -- that was directed by Factory fave Paul Morrissey. Starring Udo Kier in the role of "Ze Baron," Flesh for Frankenstein is a horror story for Read More

3/14/75
The Passenger

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry

Synopsis: The mutual admiration between actor Jack Nicholson and director Michelangelo Antonioni resulted in the psychological drama The Passenger. Nicholson plays David Locke, a disillusioned American reporter who is sent on a grueling mission to North Africa. When he stumbles across the body of a dead Read More

2/28/75
La Pupa del Gangster

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this film, an Italian hooker ends up as head gangster after her mobster boyfriend commits a murder and tries to cover it up. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1/17/75
Wanted: Babysitter

Crew: Producer

Actors: Maria Schneider, Sydne Rome, Robert Vaughn, Nadja Tiller, Carl Möhner

Synopsis: Maria Schneider is Michele, a young student sculptress assigned to look after the kidnapped baby of her ex-lover. She and the kid hit it off but are unable to escape until the kidnappers begin to kill one another off. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
La Poliziotta

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mariangela Melato, Orazio Orlando, Alberto Lionello, Renato Pozzetto, Mario Carotenuto

Synopsis: Gianna Abastanza (Mariangelo Melato) is tired of men acting as though they can do everything better than women, so she enters the police force and dons a policewoman's uniform. By following the law more closely than her police comrades and superiors, she soon runs into trouble with them, though Read More

10/24/74
Verdict

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean Gabin, Sophia Loren, Michel Albertini, Muriel Catala

Synopsis: In Jury of One, French filmmaker Andre Cayatte once more probes into the intricacies of the Gallic justice system. Sophia Loren plays the widow of a man reputed to be a gangster. When Loren's son Michel Albertini is accused of murder, his father's reputation practically assures a guilty verdict. Read More

9/11/74
Il Bestione

Crew: Producer

Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Michel Constantin, Giuseppe Maffioli, Giuliana Calandra

Synopsis: This simple movie, which follow the exploits of two transcontinental truck drivers as they wrestle their semi across Europe, is much enhanced by having the veteran actors Michel Constantin and Giancarlo Giannini in the roles of Nino and Sandro. At the beginning of the film, the two men have not Read More

8/12/74
Arrivano Joe e Margherito

Crew: Producer

8/12/74
Claretta and Ben

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Bernadette Lafont, Franco Fabrizi, Gigi Ballista

Synopsis: In this black comedy, a struggling actor-playwright goes on tour with a play he wrote for himself and his lover. It is about the life and love between Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petracci, his mistress. When his show travels to Italy it meets with a very negative response from the local Read More

4/13/74
Il Viaggio

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ian Bannen, Sophia Loren, Richard Burton

Synopsis: In turn-of-the-century Sicily, aristocratic scions Adriana (Sophia Loren) and Cesar (Richard Burton) have loved one another for years, but Adriana accedes to the wishes of Cesar's father and marries his foolish younger brother Antonio (Ian Bannen). When Antonio dies, much to the relief of Read More

3/11/74
Cugini Carnale

Crew: Producer

Actors: Susan Player, Hugh Griffith, Riccardo Cucciolla, Rosalba Neri

Synopsis: In this Italian sex comedy, everyone in a small provincial town sleeps with everyone else, except for Nico, the shy, hapless nephew of Don Carlo, an important landowner. When his beautiful blonde cousin is sent to the manor for the summer, she uses all her wiles to get him into bed before she has Read More

3/7/74
Giordano Bruno

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè

Synopsis: Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was one of the pivotal thinkers of the Renaissance. A Dominican friar in Italy, he left the order and taught widely throughout Europe. Among the ideas he taught were the inexpressibility of any ultimate truths and the complete relativity of ordinary truth. He also taught Read More

11/29/73
Rappresaglia

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, Leo McKern, John Steiner, Delia Boccardo

Synopsis: On March 24, 1944, in the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome, one of the most infamous atrocities of World War II occurred -- the mass execution of 330 Italians in retaliation for the deaths of 33 Germans. The book Death in Rome contends that Pope Pius XII knew of the German plan but did nothing to stop Read More

10/4/73
Torso

Crew: Producer

Actors: Patricia Adiutori, Carla Brait, Angela Covello

Synopsis: A group of extremely glamourous college coeds (Suzy Kendall among them) are being stalked by a hooded sex-killer whose weapon of choice is a hacksaw. Despite this perverse premise and an equally sick title (which translates as "The Bodies Show Signs of Carnal Violence"), this remains a rather dull Read More

1/4/73
Gawain and the Green Knight

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this historical fantasy, based on the classic medieval poem during the days of King Arthur, the gallant Green Knight gallops into the court and makes a gruesome challenge to the Round Table Knights. He dares any of them to successfully chop off his head. If they fail, he gets to hack off Read More

1973
Blood for Dracula

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica, Maxime McKendry, Arno Juerging

Synopsis: The second of two horror films shot in a single production term and bearing the name of pop-art icon Andy Warhol (whose participation pretty much ended with the use of his name), this film is slightly superior to its higher-profile predecessor, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. Direction is credited to Warhol Read More

1973
Che?

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hugh Griffith, Sydne Rome

Synopsis: One of Roman Polanski's lesser-known films, Diary of Forbidden Dreams (also known as What?) stars Sydne Rome as an attractive young hitchhiker who, as the film opens, accepts a ride from three men in a car, who later attempt to rape her. She escapes their clutches and makes her way to a mansion Read More

12/7/72
Bianco, Rosso e...

Crew: Producer

Actors: Antonio Alfonso, Bruno Biassibetti, Ezio Curti, Aldo Farina, Sergio Fasanelli, Pilar Gomez Ferrer, Carla Galletti, Francesca Modigliani

Synopsis: This comic Italian melodrama recounts the story of a friendship which develops out of a romantic obsession. The Italian communist party was largely independent of the Eastern Bloc, and has played a large political role in that country, particularly on the local level. This story tells of Annibale Read More

3/31/72
Mortadella

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sophia Loren

Synopsis: The well-known short-story writer Ring Lardner, Jr. wrote the screenplay for La Mortadella, an Italian/French production with mostly English dialogue. The story concerns the difficulties and reactions of Madelena (Sophia Loren), an Italian visitor to New York City. She has come to the country Read More

12/22/71
La Moglie del Prete

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis: Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni star in this Italian comedy. The story begins with Loren as Valerie, a woman whose suicide attempt, prompted by a romantic disappointment, is thwarted by Don Mario (Mastroianni), a priest whom she called before she lost consciousness. She immediately falls in Read More

11/19/70
I Girasoli

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Galina Andreeva

Synopsis: The first Italian feature film shot in Moscow was directed by the renowned Vittorio De Sica and produced by Carlo Ponti. Sophia Loren stars as Giovanna, an Italian woman who marries Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) 12 days before the outbreak of WWII. Antonio has no desire to fight in the conflict Read More

3/14/70
Zabriskie Point

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor

Synopsis: Zabriskie Point, director Michelangelo Antonioni's only American film, is an unusual, visually stunning examination of youthful rebellion against the Establishment. The film, initially presented in quasi-documentary style, presents a group of college activists discussing key issues of their Read More

1970
Amanti

Crew: Producer

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Marcello Mastroianni, Caroline Mortimer, Karin Engh

Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica directed this sudsy romantic drama, which received punishing reviews on its initial release. Recently-divorced fashion designer Julia (Faye Dunaway) arrives in Venice from the U.S. and meets handsome race car driver Valerio (Marcello Mastroianni) at the airport. While she Read More

12/19/68
Diamonds for Breakfast

Crew: Producer

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Rita Tushingham, Elaine Taylor, Maggie Blye, Francisca Tu

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni marks his English language film debut in this featherweight caper film directed by first-time director Christopher Morahan. Mastroianni plays the owner of a London boutique who also happens to be the fourth in line to succeed the Russian throne. Mastroianni, feeling that the Read More

1968
L'Uomo dei Cinque Palloni

Crew: Producer

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Spaak

Synopsis: Mario (Marcello Mastroianni) is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting. His principle romantic interest in this feature is played by Catherine Spaak. The majority of the film seems to come from previous efforts from 1964 and 1965 Read More

1968
Questi Fantasmi

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sophia Loren, Vittorio Gassman, Mario Adorf, Margaret Lee, Aldo Giuffré

Synopsis: A couple with marital problems hopes to find new spirit living in a haunted house in this arcical comedy. Pasquale (Vittorio Gassman) and Maria (Sophia Loren) are a couple who are married, but not at all happily; he's a chronically unemployed musician, she can't stand her husband, and they've both Read More

12/23/67
C'era una Volta

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sophia Loren, Omar Sharif, Dolores Del Rio, Georges Wilson, Leslie French

Synopsis: A handsome prince searches for love in this whimsical fairy tale. Prince Ramon (Omar Sharif) has been pledged to an arranged marriage by the Queen Mother (Dolores Del Rio), but he balks at marrying a woman whom he doesn't love, and rides away on his horse rather than face the altar. While riding Read More

10/19/67
La Ragazza e il Generale

Crew: Producer

Actors: Virna Lisi, Rod Steiger, Umberto Orsini

Synopsis: Set in Italy during WW I, this war drama centers on the off-beat relationship between a Bavarian general an a peasant girl after they both end up captured by a bungling Italian soldier. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

9/13/67
La Vingt-Cinquième Heure

Crew: Producer

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Serge Reggiani, Gregoire Aslan, Michael Redgrave

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu, this satirical concentration-camp drama from Turkish-born French director Henri Verneuil stars Anthony Quinn as Johann Moritz, a Romanian peasant who experiences the horrors of World War II when the Nazis invade his country. Because local police chief Read More

4/26/67
Smashing Time

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Michael York, Anna Quayle, Irene Handl

Synopsis: Smashing Time attempts to turn British actresses Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave into a female Laurel and Hardy. The film's second mistake is to prolong the joke for 96 minutes. Tushingham and Redgrave play a couple of dimwitted North Country girls who head to London, in hopes of breaking into Read More

1967
Blow-Up

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Peter Bowles, John Castle

Synopsis: Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language production was also his only box office hit, widely considered one of the seminal films of the 1960s. Thomas (David Hemmings) is a nihilistic, wealthy fashion photographer in mod "Swinging London." Filled with ennui, bored with his Read More

1966
Ukradena Vzducholod

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Five young boys take off in a lighter-than-air machine from the Centenary Exposition in Prague. As the adult world races to copy the invention for their own evil purposes, the boys land on an uncharted island. The five boys survive against pirates, Captain Nemo, and the elements of nature in this Read More

1966
Oggi, Domani e Dopodomani

Crew: Producer

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Pamela Tiffin, Virna Lisi, Luciano Salce, Raimondo Vianello

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni stars in this film which combines much of the 1965 release Paranoia with new footage. A police inspector is told of the bizarre behavior of a pistol-packing papa who shoots blanks at his wife to keep her intimidated. He inserts a real bullet every so often just to let her know Read More

12/21/65
10th Victim

Crew: Producer

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Massimo Serato, Salvo Randone

Synopsis: Based on an interesting plot from a novel by Robert Sheckley, this movie features tongue-in-cheek performances by Andress and Mastroianni, which are responsible for its status as a minor cult favorite. Set in the 21st century, this science fiction movie depicts a society in which population Read More

12/1/65
Casanova '70

Crew: Producer

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michele Mercier, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell, Marco Ferreri

Synopsis: Since it was made in 1965, we can assume that Casanova '70 is set five years in the future. Marcello Mastroianni stars as the modern incarnation of the legendary lover. This Casanova is a NATO officer who is sexually aroused only when danger threatens. And that's about all there is to it, except Read More

10/20/65
A Day in Court

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Courtroom tomfoolery provides the basis for this four-episode Italian anthology comedy. In the first segment "Adultery in 16mm," an angry wife attempts to sue her neglectful husband by charging him with abandonment. Meanwhile, he charges her with adultery and claims to have a few reels of Read More

1965
Lady L

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven, Claude Dauphin, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: Lady L (Sophia Loren) is an 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous adventures in flashback in this light sex comedy. While working as a laundress, Lady L falls for the gambler and anarchist Armand (Paul Newman), who gets mixed up with an inept group trying to assassinate the senile Prince Otto (Peter Ustinov Read More

1965
Operation Crossbow

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Tom Courtenay, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms, Jeremy Kemp, Paul Henreid, Helmut Dantine

Synopsis: This big-budget, big-studio espionage film is set in the last years of World War II. George Peppard, Tom Courtenay and Jeremy Kemp parachute into Germany, with orders to destroy the Nazis' V-1 rocket base at Peenemunde. Given the order of billing, guess which special operative survives the Read More

1965
Doctor Zhivago

Crew: Producer

Actors: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness

Synopsis: Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif). In the tradition of Russian novels, a multitude of characters and subplots Read More

1965
Marriage Italian Style

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Marilù Tolo, Pia Lindström

Synopsis: In flashback, Marcello Mastroianni recalls his wartime romance with Sophia Loren. He is so enamored with her that he finances her escape from the bordello where she lives and sets her up with a good job in the restaurant that he owns, and later finds a place for her on his mother's domestic staff. Read More

12/18/64
La Donna Scimmia

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Annie Girardot

Synopsis: Like The Elephant Man, The Ape Woman (original Italian title: La Donna Scimmia) is based on the real-life exploitation of a deformed human being. Ugo Tognazzi stars as a charming ne'er-do-well who happens upon young Annie Girardot, who outside of the fact that she is covered with hair from head to Read More

1/29/64
... A Pátý Jezdec Je Strach

Crew: Producer

Actors: Miroslav Machacek, Jiri Adamira, Josef Vinklar

Synopsis: When the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia, the first thing to happen was the disaffection of all the Jews in professional positions. No longer able to practice medicine, a Jewish physician begins working in a warehouse, biding his time until the war is over. A fellow tenant appeals to the physician Read More

1964
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffré, Agostino Salvietti, Armando Trovajoli, Lino Mattera, Tina Pica

Synopsis: Each of the episodes in the three-part Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Ieri, Oggi E Domani) stars Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. In "Adelina-Naples," Loren and Mastroianni are married, and Loren is in trouble with the law. Each time the authorities close in, Loren eludes capture by Read More

12/19/63
La Noia

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak, Daniela Rocca, Lea Padovani

Synopsis: Horst Bucholz plays Dino, a painter who realizes he has no artistic vision and decides to move back into his wealthy mother's (Betty Davis) home. Just before he does this, however, he falls in love with beautiful and self-serving Cecilia (Catherine Spaak). Though Dino diligently attempts to Read More

12/4/63
Contempt

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang, Giorgia Moll

Synopsis: Contempt is the story of the end of a marriage. Camille (Brigitte Bardot) falls out of love with her husband Paul (Michel Piccoli) while he is rewriting the screenplay Odyssey by American producer Jeremiah Prokosch (Jack Palance). Just as the director of Prokosch's film, Fritz Lang, says that The Read More

10/29/63
Les Carabiniers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Marino Masé, Albert Juross, Geneviève Galéa, Catherine Ribeiro

Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard directed this brutal and purposefully harsh satire (adapted from a play by Benjamino Joppolo) which explores the grim folly of war. Ulysses (Marino Masé) and Michel Ange (Albert Juross) are a pair of thickheaded peasants living in a nameless country who receive a visit from a pair Read More

5/31/63
Landru

Crew: Producer

Actors: Charles Denner, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Juliette Mayniel

Synopsis: This black comedy is based on the dastardly deeds of French serial killer Henri-Desire Landru, who wined, dined, scammed, and dismembered over 10 women during WW I. He obtained his victims by placing ads in the Personals section of the paper. He then chose wealthy dowagers in their fifties. First Read More

1/25/63
L'Isola di Arturo

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kay Meersman, Vanni de Maigret, Reginald Kernan

Synopsis: An early melodrama from director Damiano Damiani, this overheated coming-of-age story concerns a neglected teenager (Vanni De Maigret) living on an island in the Bay of Naples. Arturo's widowed father (Reginald Kernan) shows up one day with an attractive new wife (Kay Meersman), and leaves them Read More

1963
Le Doulos

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Monique Hennessy, Michel Piccoli, Jean Desailly, René Lefèvre

Synopsis: Confusion and wrong assumptions are the cause of tragedy in this stylish gangster noir by director Jean-Pierre Melville. Maurice (Serge Reggiani) and Silien (Jean-Paul Belmondo) are friends going way back, and both have had a shady past. Silien wants to leave his illegal activities behind him Read More

12/13/62
I Sequestrati di Altona

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredric March, Robert Wagner, Françoise Prevost

Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica's version of a play by Jean-Paul Sartre stars Frederic March as Albrecht von Gerlach, the owner of one of Germany's biggest industrial firms. Albrecht calls for his son Werner (Robert Wagner), a lawyer who is married to an actress, Johanna (Sophia Loren). The aging Albrecht wants Read More

10/30/62
Boccaccio '70

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sophia Loren, Luigi Giuliani, Anita Ekberg, Peppino De Filippo, Romy Schneider, Romolo Valli, Tomas Milian

Synopsis: Released in the US by 20th Century-Fox, Boccaccio '70 is a compendium of short subjects directed by three of Italy's top filmmakers. Each story is written in the style of the famed Italian essayist Boccaccio, albeit told in contemporary terms. First up is "The Raffle", written by Cesare Zavattini Read More

2/23/62
L'Oeil du Malin

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jacques Charrier, Stéphane Audran, Walter Reyer

Synopsis: In this French drama, a struggling writer is taken in by a successful author and his wife who allow him to use their Bavarian chateau so he can write his stories about Germany. The young writer is a bitter man, jealous of the couple's happiness. He decides he will destroy it, so when the older Read More

1962
Leon Morin, Prêtre

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc, Nicole Mirel

Synopsis: Jean-Paul Belmondo portrays Leon Morin, an altruistic priest who believes that any sin can be expunged by a good dose of faith. Emmanuelle Riva plays a wayward woman who long ago decided that the easiest way was the best. Belmondo makes it his mission to steer Riva onto the right path. Given the Read More

9/22/61
Lola

Crew: Producer

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Elina Labourdette, Alan Scott, Annie Duperoux

Synopsis: Jacques Demy's auspicious debut -- "a musical without music" set in the port city of Nantes -- stars Anouk Aimée as the title character, a cabaret singer awaiting the return of Michel (Jacques Hardin), her long-absent lover and the father of her child. Michel went to America seven years ago and