Down and Dirty (film)
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Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (Ugly, Dirty and Mean) | |
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Directed by | Ettore Scola |
Written by | Sergio Citti Ettore Scola Ruggero Maccari |
Produced by | Carlo Ponti Romano Dandi |
Starring | Nino Manfredi Marcella Michelangeli Marcella Battisti Francesco Crescimone Silvia Ferluga Zoe Incrocci Adriana Russo Franco Merli Maria Bosco |
Cinematography | Dario Di Palma |
Music by | Armando Trovajoli |
Release date | 1976 |
Running time | 115 min. |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Ugly, Dirty and Bad (Brutti, sporchi e cattivi) is an Italian grotesque film directed by Ettore Scola and released in 1976.
It won the Prix de la Mise en scène at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.[1] Nino Manfredi plays the protagonist.
Plot[]
The film tells the grotesque story of a large Apulian family living in an extremely poor shantytown of the periphery of Rome. The protagonist is one-eyed patriarch Giacinto (Manfredi). Four generations of his sons and relatives are cramped together in his shack, managing to get by mainly on thieving and whoring, among other things more or less respectable.
For the loss of his eye, an insurance company has paid Giacinto a large sum. Giacinto refuses to share his money with anyone, and spends little of it on himself, preferring to hide it from his family, which he routinely abuses verbally and physically. Various members of the family unsuccessfully try to steal his money. When Giacinto falls in love with an obese prostitute, brings her home and starts spending his money on her, Giacinto's enraged wife conspires with the rest of the family to poison him. However, Giacinto survives. In a frenzy of anger, he sets fire to his home. To his disappointment, his family survives.
Giacinto then sells the house to a Neapolitan immigrant family. Giacinto's family refuses to let the Neapolitans take over the shack, and in the ensuing fight, the shack collapses. The film ends with Giacinto living in a newly built exceedingly crowded shack with both his mistress and his wife, together with an apparently reconciled family and the newcomers as well.
Cast[]
- Nino Manfredi - Giacinto Mazzatella
- - Iside
- - Domizio
- - Gaetana
- - Lisetta
- - Plinio
- - Paride
- - Maria Libera
- - Camillo
- - Vittoriano
- Franco Merli - Fernando
- - Matilde
- - Romolo
- - Tato
- - Paride's Wife
- Beryl Cunningham - Baraccata Negra
References[]
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Brutti, sporchi e cattivi". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
External links[]
- Italian-language films
- 1976 films
- 1976 comedy films
- Italian films
- Italian comedy films
- Italian satirical films
- Films directed by Ettore Scola
- Commedia all'italiana
- Films set in Rome
- Films shot in Rome
- Social realism in film
- Films about dysfunctional families
- Films produced by Carlo Ponti
- Films with screenplays by Ruggero Maccari
- Films scored by Armando Trovajoli
- Films with screenplays by Ettore Scola
- 1970s Italian comedy film stubs