The dirty, the ugly, and the mean
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The dirty, the ugly, and the mean |
| Original title | Brutti, sporchi e cattivi |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ettore Scola |
| script |
Sergio Citti Ettore Scola Ruggero Maccari |
| production |
Carlo Ponti Romano Dandi |
| music | Armando Trovajoli |
| camera | Dario Di Palma |
| cut | Raimondo Crociani |
| occupation | |
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The dirty, the ugly and the mean (original title: Brutti, sporchi e cattivi ) is a feature film by the director Ettore Scola from 1976. It won the prize for best director at the Cannes Film Festival in the same year.
action
The film tells the story of an extended family who live in a slum in the suburbs of Rome . Among other things, they earn their living with theft and prostitution. Four generations live together in a barrack that is ruled by the one-eyed patriarch Giacinto . He received a high insurance premium for the loss of his eye, which everyone would like to take for themselves. When Giacinto brings his mistress, a prostitute, into the house, the situation escalates; the family tries to poison him, but he survives, sets the barrack on fire in anger and sells the property to another extended family. But at the end of the film you come to terms with a status quo again .
Reviews
"Stylistically working with the means of neorealism , the film rigorously avoids its sentimentalities and sentimentalities."
“Nothing gives hope in Scola's film, not the church, not the family, not the class […] The meanness is by no means tied to the struggle for survival, it has itself become the elixir of life. And Scola brings it so close to us that we can't help but participate. (...) You feel a little beaten up, a little mocked, but also a little liberated after this film. After that Scola looked again for positions, for ways to carefully love people. "
Theater adaptation
In January 2010, the Schauspiel Köln premiered a version of the film adapted by the artistic director Karin Beier as a play in the Halle Kalk.
Web links
- Ugly, Dirty and Bad in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The dirty, the ugly, and the mean. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Georg Seeßlen : The dirty, the ugly and the mean. epd film , No. 5, 1991.
- ↑ The dirty, the ugly & the mean - Karin Beier's toneless poverty table according to Scola. Nachtkritik.de, January 2010.