Accattone
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Poet and painter turned filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini courted controversy with his very first feature by using Catholic iconography and liturgical music to render a plaintive, brutally beautiful portrait of a shiftless Roman pimp and thief (then-nonprofessional Franco Citti, in a revelatory performance) whose life of petty crime turns increasingly desperate when the woman who supports him is imprisoned. Melding a hardscrabble neorealist milieu with classical influences, Pasolini offers a vision of underclass struggle as a kind of modern sainthood.
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Cast
- Franco Citti
- Vittorio Cataldi, a.k.a. Accattone
- Franca Pasut
- Stella
- Silvana Corsini
- Maddalena
- Paola Guidi
- Ascenza
- Adriana Asti
- Amore
- Mario Cipriani
- Balilla
- Roberto Scaringella
- Cartagine
- Silvio Citti
- Sabino
- Polidor
- The undertaker
- Elsa Morante
- The prisoner
Credits
- Director
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Written by
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Dialogues cowritten by
- Sergio Citti
- Produced by
- Alfredo Bini
- Produced by
- Cino Del Duca
- Produced by
- Tonino Delli Colli
- Edited by
- Nino Baragli
- Production design
- Flavio Mogherini
- Set decoration
- Gino Lazzari
- Sound
- Luigi Puri
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