The skin (film)

Movie
German title	The skin
Original title	La pelle
Country of production	Italy , France
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1981
length	German version: 111 minutes Original version: 131 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Liliana Cavani
script	Robert Katz , Liliana Cavani, Catherine Breillat
production	Alain Poiré , Renzo Rossellini
music	Lalo Schifrin
camera	Armando Nannuzzi
cut	Ruggero Mastroianni
occupation
Marcello Mastroianni : Curzio Malaparte Claudia Cardinale : Principessa Consuelo Caracciolo Burt Lancaster : General Mark Clark Jacques Sernas : Gen Guillaume Ken Marshall : Jimmy Wren Alexandra King : Deborah Wyatt Carlo Giuffrè : Eduardo Mazzullo Yann Babilée : Jean-Louis Jeanne Valérie : Principessa a Capri Liliana Tari : Maria Concetta Peppe Barra : Sarto (as Giuseppe Barra) Cristina Donadio : Amica di Anna

The skin (original title: La pelle) is a feature film by Liliana Cavani from 1981 with Marcello Mastroianni , Claudia Cardinale and Burt Lancaster in the leading roles. The Italian-French co-production is based on the novel of the same name by Curzio Malaparte .

action

Italy , 1943. The Nazis have given up Naples . The Allies invade and take over the city. US Commander General Clark tries to bring order to the city of Naples, which in the last years of the Second World War is all about survival due to poverty and hunger. Everyone has to watch how they can save their own skin. The women sell themselves as prostitutes to the American occupiers and thus earn their food. But they are not the only ones who have to sell their skin. Since the Americans misbehave, they are not exactly welcome as friends ...

Reviews

Prisma-Online describes the film as "a provocative as well as drastic war drama with an all-star cast that intensely deals with the subjects of exploitation and humiliation."

“Staged based on motifs from the famous scandalous novel by Curzio Malaparte, the episodic narrative film quickly slips into speculative voyerism and gimmicky shock effects. Mechanisms and motives are only made conscious in this way. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• The skin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The skin in the online film database
• The skin at cinema.de
• The skin at filmtipps.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for the skin . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2009 (PDF; re-examination, formerly FSK 18, test number: 52612a DVD).
2. ↑ The skin at prisma.de
3. ↑ The skin. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 4, 2016 .