Directed by:
Pier Paolo PasoliniScreenplay:
Pier Paolo PasoliniCinematography:
Giuseppe RuzzoliniComposer:
Ennio MorriconeCast:
Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky, Ninetto Davoli, Susanna Pasolini, Alfonso Gatto, Luigi Barbini, Laura Betti, Carlo De Mejo (more)VOD (1)
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One of the iconoclastic Pier Paolo Pasolini’s most radical provocations, Teorema finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness. Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger—perhaps an angel, perhaps a devil—who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family (including European cinema icons Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, and Anne Wiazemsky), precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. Unfolding nearly wordlessly in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle—blocked from exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy—is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and art and a primal scream into the void. (Criterion)
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Silvana Mangano
Italy
Best movies:
Conversation Piece (1974)
Ludwig: The Mad King of Bavaria (1973)
The Great War (1959)
Terence Stamp
UK
Best movies:
Valkyrie (2008)
Wall Street (1987)
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Massimo Girotti
Italy
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
In the Name of the Law (1949)
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Anne Wiazemsky
West Germany
Best movies:
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Teorema (1968)
La Chinoise (1967)
Ninetto Davoli
Italy
Best movies:
The Gospel According to Matthew (1964)
Ostia (1970)
Teorema (1968)
Susanna Pasolini
Italy
Best movies:
The Gospel According to Matthew (1964)
Teorema (1968)
Alfonso Gatto
Italy
Best movies:
The Gospel According to Matthew (1964)
Teorema (1968)
The Context (1976)
Luigi Barbini
Best movies:
The Gospel According to Matthew (1964)
Teorema (1968)
The Tough and the Mighty (1969)
Laura Betti
Italy
Best movies:
1900 (1976)
The Sweet Life (1960)
Escape by Night (1960)
Carlo De Mejo
Italy
Best movies:
Teorema (1968)
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
The Outside Man (1972)
Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia
Italy
Best movies:
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Joko invoca Dio... e muori (1968)
Teorema (1968)
Cesare Garboli
Italy
Best movies:
Teorema (1968)