Mortacci
| Mortacci | |
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| Directed by | Sergio Citti |
| Written by | David Grieco Vincenzo Cerami Ottavio Jemma Sergio Citti |
| Produced by | Gioanfranco Piccioli Giorgio Leopardi |
| Starring | Vittorio Gassman Malcolm McDowell Mariangela Melato Sergio Rubini |
| Cinematography | Cristiano Pogany |
| Edited by | Ugo De Rossi |
| Music by | Francesco De Masi |
Release date | 1989 |
Running time | 110 min |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Mortacci is a 1989 Italian comedy film directed by Sergio Citti.[1][2][3]
Plot summary
In a cemetery in Rome, at night, the soldier Camillo arrives among the graves. The rude and crude keeper Domenico welcomes him and makes him sit in a chapel. Camillo is looking for happiness, so Domenico ushers Camillo in a coffin, and closes him inside. In a short time Camillo dies, and is found as raised in the world of the dead. In fact he is accepted by the clique of the souls of the cemetery, led by Domenico alive. So Camillo, to pass the time, recounts the adventures of her young life, when he was a soldier, returned to his country to war. In the village Camillo, despair for many years, was considered a hero, and now that he was back, the citizens of the country, for fear of having economic problems on the tourism organizations who had long served in the county to celebrate the "sanctity" of the soldier disappeared, they tried to kill in all the ways the poor Camillo. Even the priest was against him!
After Camillo finishes telling his story, the gang of the dead souls is shocked by the fight of two lives people, who love the same girl. The two suitors die in a duel, and eventually the girl dies of grief. The fate decides to take life too cruel Domenico, while the group of the deceased sinks ever further into oblivion. In fact, this is the fate that seek to have the souls of the cemetery: to reach the Limb thanks to the complete forgetfulness of their living relatives.
Cast
- Vittorio Gassman: Domenico
- Carol Alt: Alma Rossetti
- Malcolm McDowell: Edmondo
- Galeazzo Benti: Tommaso Grillo
- Mariangela Melato: Jolanda
- Sergio Rubini: Lucillo Cardellini
- Nino Frassica: La guida
- Andy Luotto: Angelo Cuoco, aka "Scopone"
- Aldo Giuffré: the undertaker
- Alvaro Vitali: Torquato
- Eraldo Turra: Felice
- Luciano Manzalini: Giggetto
- Donald O'Brien: Archibald Williams
- Michela Miti: the bartender
- Gina Rovere: Ada
References
- ^ Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 2000. ISBN 887742429X.
- ^ 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.
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