Girl With A Suitcase

Aida (Claudia Cardinale, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Day of the Owl) has fallen for a rich playboy and arrives at his door to find it firmly shut and herself ignored. His younger, more sensitive brother, Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin, Cinema Paradiso) helps her and finds himself quickly besotted. Cardinale gives one of her most tender and vulnerable performances in Girl with a Suitcase, an unsentimental coming-of-age story that deals as much with adolescence as class. A vital director of Italy's post-war cinema, Valerio Zurlini's small but remarkable body of work deserves to be discussed among the greats.

Bonus Materials

• 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative by the Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Camelia and Titanus
• Interview with assistant director Piero Schivazappa
• Interview with screenwriter Piero De Bernard
• Interview with film critic Bruno Torri on Zurlini’s career
• Visual essay about the film by Kat Ellinger
• Trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Giuliana Minghelli

Sales Points

• first time on Blu-ray, 4K restored, loaded with extras

• Run Time: 96 mins
• Number of Discs: 1
• Audio: STEREO
• Year of Production: 1961
• Region Code: 0
• Box Lot: 25
• Territory: NORTH AMERICA
• Language: Italian

Press Quotes

'The kind of economical and highly evocative direction that one associates with the best contemporary Italian films'

     —Monthly Film Bulletin