The Hawks and the Sparrows
While wandering the countryside, a pair of father-and-son vagabonds (played respectively by Italian cinema legend Totò, in his final major film role, and Ninetto Davoli) happen upon a talking crow who spouts philosophy and launches them on a freewheeling picaresque through time, space, and the margins of a rapidly modernizing Italy. A comic Marxist fable that balances heady ideas about religion, poverty, and class struggle with irreverent slapstick sight gags, The Hawks and the Sparrows finds Pasolini at his lightest yet as stingingly subversive as ever.
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Collector's Set
Cast
- Totò
- Innocent Totò/Brother Cicillo
- Ninetto Davoli
- Innocent Ninetto/Brother Ninetto
- Femi Benussi
- Luna
- Francesco Leonetti
- Voice of the crow
- Gabriele Baldini
- The Dantist dentist
- Riccardo Redi
- The engineer
- Lena Lin Solaro
- Urganda
- Rossana di Rocco
- Ninetto’s friend
Credits
- Director
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Written by
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Produced by
- Alfredo Bini
- Cinematography
- Tonino Delli Colli
- Cinematography
- Mario Bernardo
- Edited by
- Nino Baragli
- Production design
- Luigi Scaccianoce
- Costume design
- Danilo Donati
- Music
- Ennio Morricone
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A scene from The Hawks and the Sparrows
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