Directed by:
Pier Paolo PasoliniCinematography:
Tonino Delli ColliCast:
Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, Adriana Asti, Monica Vitti, Ferdinand Guillaume, Sergio Citti, Renato Terra, Piero Morgia, Luciano Conti, Mario Cipriani (more)VOD (1)
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Poet and painter turned filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini courted controversy with his very first feature by using Catholic iconography and liturgical music to render a plaintive, brutally beautiful portrait of a shiftless Roman pimp and thief (then-nonprofessional Franco Citti, in a revelatory performance) whose life of petty crime turns increasingly desperate when the woman who supports him is imprisoned. Melding a hardscrabble neorealist milieu with classical influences, Pasolini offers a vision of underclass struggle as a kind of modern sainthood. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Franco Citti
Italy
Best movies:
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather: Part III (1990)
Silvana Corsini
Italy
Best movies:
Accattone (1961)
Mamma Roma (1962)
Adriana Asti
Italy
Best movies:
The Best of Youth (2003) (series)
Una breve vacanza (1973)
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Monica Vitti
Italy
Best movies:
Teresa la ladra (1972)
Ninì Tirabusciò: la donna che inventò la mossa (1970)
La Notte (1961)
Ferdinand Guillaume
France
Best movies:
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
The Sweet Life (1960)
Accattone (1961)
Sergio Citti
Italy
Best movies:
Accattone (1961)
Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (1968)
Renato Terra
Italy
Best movies:
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (TV movie)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
Piero Morgia
Italy
Best movies:
The Damned (1969)
Accattone (1961)
Mamma Roma (1962)
Luciano Conti
Best movies:
Accattone (1961)
The Magnificent Robin Hood (1970)
Mario Cipriani
Best movies:
Accattone (1961)
Mamma Roma (1962)
Rogopag (1963)
Alfredo Leggi
Best movies:
Teresa la ladra (1972)
Accattone (1961)
The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
Elsa Morante
Italy
Best movies:
Accattone (1961)