Brutti, sporchi e cattivi


Brutti, sporchi e cattivi
Directed by Ettore Scola
Produced by Carlo Ponti
Romano Dandi
Written by Sergio Citti,
Ettore Scola,
Ruggero Maccari
Starring Nino Manfredi,
Marcella Michelangeli,
Marcella Battisti,
Francesco Crescimone,
Silvia Ferluga,
Zoe Incrocci,
Adriana Russo,
Franco Merli,
Maria Bosco
Music by Armando Trovajoli
Release date(s) 1976
Running time 115 min.
Country Italy
Language Italian

Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (English title: Ugly, Dirty and Bad) is an Italian language 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 main protagonist.

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Plot

The film tells the grotesque story of a large family living in an extremely poor shantytown of the periphery of Rome. The main 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. Moved by greed, the whole family (including his wife, who is enraged by Giacinto's bringing home a fat prostitute he has fallen in love with, and who has become his mistress) try to poison him in order to inherit the money. However, Giacinto survives. In a frenzy of anger, he sets fire to his home and shoots one of his sons with a hunting rifle (the son survives).

In the meantime Giacinto has sold the house to a Neapolitan immigrant family. The film ends with Giacinto living in a newly built exceedingly crowded shack with both his mistress and his wife, together with an apparently reconciliated family and the newcomers as well.

Cast

  • Nino Manfredi - Giacinto Mazzatella
  • Maria Luisa Santella - Iside
  • Francesco Anniballi - Domizio
  • Maria Bosco - Gaetana
  • Giselda Castrini - Lisetta
  • Alfredo D'Ippolito - Plinio
  • Giancarlo Fanelli - Paride
  • Marina Fasoli - Maria Libera
  • Ettore Garofolo - Camillo
  • Marco Marsili - Marce
  • Franco Merli - Fernando
  • Linda Moretti - Matilde
  • Luciano Pagliuca - Romolo
  • Giuseppe Paravati - Tato
  • Silvana Priori - Paride's Wife

References

  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Brutti, sporchi e cattivi". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2122/year/1976.html. Retrieved 2009-05-05. 

External links

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Films directed by Ettore Scola
1960s
Let's Talk About Women (1964) · One Million Dollars (1965) · The Devil in Love (1966) · Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (1968) · Police Chief Pepe (1969)
1970s
The Pizza Triangle (1970) · My Name Is Rocco Papaleo (1971) · The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life (1972) · Trevico-Torino (viaggio nel Fiat-Nam) (1973) · We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974) · Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976) · Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976) · A Special Day (1977)
1980s
The Terrace (1980) · Passion of Love (1981) · That Night in Varennes (1982) · Le bal (1983) · Macaroni (1985) · The Family (1987) · Splendor (1988) · What Time Is It? (1989)
1990s
The Voyage of Captain Fracassa (1990) · Mario, Maria and Mario (1993) · Romanzo di un giovane povero (1995) · The Dinner (1998)
2000s






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