Accattone
1961 ‧ Drama/Narrative ‧ 1h 57m
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7.6/10 · IMDb
100% · Rotten Tomatoes
In the slums of Rome, Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi (Franco Citti) supports himself as a pimp for his longtime girlfriend, Maddalena (Silvana Corsini). When his meal ticket goes to jail after being assaulted by a pack of thugs, Accattone scrambles...
Release date: April 4, 1968 (USA)
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sergio Citti
Cinematography: Tonino Delli Colli
Distributed by: Titanus
Music by: Johann Sebastian Bach
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A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.A pimp with no other means ...
Accattone is a 1961 Italian drama film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. It was Pasolini's first film as a director and premiered at the Venice ...
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Accattone is a tale of desolate wasters in a desolate wasteland, thought to be adapted from the multi-platform poet's early novels. The film plays out like a ...
Jun 27, 2023 · Melding a hardscrabble neorealist milieu with classical influences, Pasolini offers a vision of underclass struggle as a kind of modern ...
Melding a hardscrabble neorealist milieu with classical influences, Pasolini offers a vision of underclass struggle as a kind of modern sainthood. Show more ...
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The first of Pier Paolo Pasolini's highly acclaimed films and the winner of numerous film festival prizes, ACCATTONE uses a talented cast to present a vivid
Accattone is the nickname of Vittorio—played by non-professional Franco Citti, a soon-to-be Pasolini regular—a young loafer roaming the hardscrabble Roman slum ...
Nov 16, 2022 · Accattone (Franco Citti) is a shiftless pimp who loses his livelihood when the woman he works with is thrown in prison. Unable to support ...
Critics reviews ... The protagonist alternately resembles a parasitic apostle and a self-mortifying Brando lump, he mentions "providence" and like Belmondo in ...
In the character of Accattone—a street nickname meaning “pimp” or “scrounger”—Pasolini introduces the first of his remarkable finds: Franco Citti (brother of ...