I giorni contati

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Movie
Original title I giorni contati
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1963
length 94 minutes
Rod
Director Elio Petri
script Elio Petri
Tonino Guerra
production Goffredo Lombardo
music Iván Vándor
camera Ennio Guarnieri
cut Ruggero Mastroianni
occupation

I giorni contati is an Italian drama film directed by Elio Petri from 1963 with Salvo Randone in the lead role.

action

After work, Cesare, while driving home on the bus, experiences a passenger found dead on a bench. He simply died of a heart attack while driving. The next morning, when he is reminded to go to work by his landlady, with whom the 54-year-old has lived since the death of his wife, he just lies there. Only in the evening, in his best suit, does he leave his room and go to his friend, who at night paints the zebra crossings on Rome's streets with his column. He tells him that he no longer wants to work in order to make good use of the little time he has he, who is the same age as the person who died on the bus, still remains.

Instead, he goes to museums, meets with a former love he had not married at the time, and visits his home village, from where he went to Rome many years ago. But he is slowly running out of the money he has saved, partly because he had loaned money to the young daughter of his landlady, who is unreliable but gets on well with. He encounters men who earn money with insurance fraud by breaking a man first and then constructing an accident under witnesses. Cesare is supposed to have his arm broken, but at the last moment he pinches, only to return to his work as a plumber the following day. When he was driving home on the bus the following evening, he died.

background

I giorni contati was Elio Petris' second film after Do you trust Alfredo to murder? , with which he returned to his roots in neorealism , but at the same time also used the stylistic devices of the Nouvelle Vague . Here he processed the experiences of his father, who was a lifelong worker.

criticism

“The new thing about this film,” said Adelio Ferrero in 1962, “is the treatment of such topics in the rhythm and form of neo-realistic imagery.”

Awards

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists 1963

Mar del Plata Film Festival 1962

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ so Tullio Kezich : Il cinema degli anni Sessanta: 1962-1966. Edizioni Il Formichiere, Milan 1979.
  2. ↑ Ferrero, in: Cinestudio No. November 5, 1962