Bawdy Tales
Storie scellerate, internationally released as Bawdy Tales, is a 1973 Italian comedy film directed by Sergio Citti.[1][2][3]
Storie scellerate | |
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Directed by | Sergio Citti |
Produced by | Alberto Grimaldi |
Written by | Pier Paolo Pasolini Sergio Citti |
Story by | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
Starring | Franco Citti Ninetto Davoli Elisabetta Genovese |
Music by | Francesco De Masi |
Cinematography | Tonino Delli Colli |
Edited by | Nino Baragli |
Release date | 1973 |
Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Plot
The film is set in 1800, in Rome. Two thieves are imprisoned and condemned to death. To pass the time, the two tell ribald stories: in the first a duke and a man named Nicolino discover that their wives have betrayed them with the boys and with a priest; in the second story two farmers are fighting a clappers asimile Rustican Cavalry by Giovanni Verga, because their wife has betrayed both. In the third story a priest lover of beautiful women kills one of his pilgrims, because he is in love with one of the girls of his menagerie; in the last story a jealous husband kills the lover of his wife. At the murder also participates another lover, more mature of the killed. God is very raged for the crime, and sues the four, performing only the last lover: the murdered, because he's pure and innocent.
Cast
- Franco Citti: Mammone
- Ninetto Davoli: Bernardino
- Nicoletta Machiavelli: Caterina di Ronciglione
- Silvano Gatti: Duca di Ronciglione
- Enzo Petriglia: Nicolino
- Santino Citti: Il Padreterno
- Giacomo Rizzo: Don Leopoldo
- Gianni Rizzo: Il cardinale
References
- Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876059695.
- Sergio Toffetti. La terra vista dalla luna: il cinema di Sergio Citti. Lindau, 1993. ISBN 8871800737.
- Maurizio De Benedictis. Sergio Citti. Lo "straniero" del cinema italiano. Lithos, 2008. ISBN 8889604379.