Bawdy Tales
| Storie scellerate | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Sergio Citti |
| Written by | Pier Paolo Pasolini Sergio Citti |
| Story by | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Produced by | Alberto Grimaldi |
| Starring | Ninetto Davoli Franco Citti Nicoletta Machiavelli |
| Cinematography | Tonino Delli Colli |
| Edited by | Nino Baragli |
| Music by | Francesco De Masi |
Release date |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Storie scellerate, internationally released as Bawdy Tales, is a 1973 Italian comedy film directed by Sergio Citti.[1][2][3]
Plot
[edit]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. In the third story, a debauched priest kills one of his pilgrims because he is in love with one of the girls the priest sought after. In the last story, a husband spends all of his money to gain his wife's affection. He tells her that since he is now broke, he intends to kill himself. The wife has a different plan to take on an elderly man who has been making eyes at her in public as a live-in john. The husband accepts, and all three live together as a happy family. The wife soon becomes bored of the two and takes a much younger lover with whom she meets frequently in a meadow outside of town. The elderly man informs the husband of this, and the two ambush and kill the young man. Soon, the wife dies of heartbreak, and the husband and john are executed for their crime. It is now Judgment Day, and the archangel is listing all their crimes before the Lord and asking all of them how they plead. The two husbands and the wife give self-serving answers about how they wish to go to Paradise and serve the Lord whom they have always cherished while the young man says he would prefer to go back to Earth so he can screw around and get drunk like in the old times. The angel banishes the three to Hell but sends the young lover to Paradise. The two thieves now have the nooses around their throats and are laughing, almost in tears at the funny ending to the story. They are executed, and the film ends on a shot of them hanging lifeless from the nooses.
Cast
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876059695.
- ^ Sergio Toffetti (1993). La terra vista dalla luna: il cinema di Sergio Citti. Lindau, 1993. ISBN 8871800737.
- ^ Maurizio De Benedictis (2008). Sergio Citti. Lo "straniero" del cinema italiano. Lithos, 2008. ISBN 978-8889604373.
External links
[edit]- Bawdy Tales at IMDb
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