Witches of today
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Witches of today |
| Original title | Le streghe |
| Country of production | Italy , France |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 121 minutes German Version: 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Mauro Bolognini Vittorio De Sica Pier Paolo Pasolini Franco Rossi Luchino Visconti |
| script |
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi Age - Scarpelli , Bernardino Zapponi Pier Paolo Pasolini Cesare Zavattini |
| production | Dino De Laurentiis |
| music |
Ennio Morricone Piero Piccioni |
| camera | Giuseppe Rotunno |
| cut |
Nino Baragli Adriana Novelli Mario Serandrei Giorgio Serrallonga |
| occupation | |
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Episode 1: Witches are burned alive
Episode 2: Practical Helpfulness
Episode 3: The earth viewed from the moon
Episode 4: The Sicilian
Episode 5: A night like any other
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Witches of Today (Original title: Le streghe ) is an Italian episode film by the directors Luchino Visconti , Mauro Bolognini , Pier Paolo Pasolini , Franco Rossi and Vittorio De Sica from 1967 . The main role in all five episodes was played by Silvana Mangano .
action
Witches are burned alive
Original title: La Strega Bruciata Viva , directed by Luchino Visconti
Film star and model Gloria tries at least for a moment to escape the stressful and externally determined life as a star and visits her friend Valeria in her chalet in Kitzbühel . But Valeria's husband and the other guests of the invited company also only court her as a star, whom they try to dismantle behind her back. Pregnant Gloria collapses and begs her absent husband and producer on the phone to at least temporarily take a break. But at the end of the film, amid great media hype, she is picked up by a helicopter and brought back to her old life.
Practical willingness to help
Original title: Senso Civico , directed by Mauro Bolognini
The woman had actually promised the accident victim Elio Ferocci to take him to the hospital. Instead, however, she only uses the emergency as a pretext to get to the meeting point with her lover faster, bypassing all traffic rules across Rome, where she simply puts the seriously injured person on the street.
The earth viewed from the moon
Original title: La terra vista dalla luna , directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Baciu couples his widowed father Giancicato Miao with the deaf and mute Assurdina. But she soon dies in an accident trying to steal some money with a publicly staged suicide attempt. This time, however, the unhappy widower retained his wife even after death.
The Sicilian
Original title: La Siciliana , director: Franco Rossi
The spirited Nunzia blackens a potential admirer of her father. He wants to avenge the injured honor of his family and kills the young man, both families now wipe each other out.
A night like any other
Original title: Una Sera Come Le Altre , director: Vittorio De Sica
Housewife Giovanna is frustrated by her life and her increasingly adapted and boring husband Carlo. In wild, opulent daydreams, she lets her passionate past come back to life in a much better way, fights for the attention of her husband and dreams of a life as a star much coveted by all men, who Carlo rejects.
background
Silvana Mangano was married to Dino De Laurentiis .
Helmut Berger appeared here for the first time in a film made by his partner Luchino Visconti .
criticism
“Episodic film with Silvana Mangano, who embodies five different types of women with remarkable versatility: from the hypothermic lady to the spirited Sicilian. While the works of Bolognini, Rossi and De Sica remain conventional, Visconti and Pasolini make original contributions, characterized by personal commitment and stylistic uniqueness. "
“With great versatility, she plays five different types of women under directing stars such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti or Vittorio De Sica with US star Clint Eastwood as a guest. Conclusion: wonderful declaration of love to a star "
“Five episodes by well-known Italian directors with Silvana Mangano as the leading actress. In none of the film parts is a really satisfactory solution achieved, as the overall title can only be justified with difficulty. Dispensable despite the noticeably ambitious design. "
Awards
David di Donatello 1967
- David in the Best Actress category for Silvana Mangano
Web links
- Witches of today in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Witches of today in the All Movie Guide (English)
- Witches of Today in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Witches of Today. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Witches of Today at cinema.de ( accessed on March 30, 2013 )
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 390/1967