Love and anarchy

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Movie
German title Love and anarchy
Original title Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero stamattina all 10 in via dei Fiori nella nota casa di tolleranza ...
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1973
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Lina Wertmüller
script Lina Wertmüller
production Romano Cardarelli
music Nino Rota
Carlo Savina
camera Giuseppe Rotunno
cut Franco Fraticelli
Fima Noveck
occupation
Screenshot of the film

Love and Anarchy is an Italian drama film directed by Lina Wertmüller from 1973.

action

Italy in the time of fascism: Tonino, a simple peasant, moves to Rome to kill the fascist dictator Mussolini . He wants to do a last friendship service to a friend, an anarchist killed by Carabinieri. His contact person in the Italian capital is the prostitute Salome, who provides him with accommodation in the brothel where she works. Tonino and the young whore Tripolina fall in love while preparing for the assassination attempt. Both spend a brief period of happiness together. However, this does not prevent Tonino from pursuing his assassination plan. However, there was no attack on Mussolini. Salome and Tripolina let him oversleep the scheduled time of the attack. Tonino misunderstood the approach of a police patrol to mean that his arrest was imminent. Whereupon he loses control of his behavior and reveals his intentions. He was then arrested and finally beaten to death in police custody.

Reviews

Lina Wertmüller's film about a love with a tragic outcome was unanimously received with enthusiasm by the film critics. In German-speaking countries, in which the dubbed version of this film was only shown more than ten years after its premiere, the grotesque scenes played in the brothel, the comedic élan of the production and the impressive depictions of humanity and cruelty were particularly praised.

  • A strangely poignant grotesque, an unbelievable mixture of romantic opera and political satire. Joke, irony and deeper meaning. In short: love and anarchy (Kurt Habernoll in the Berliner Morgenpost )
  • Tragic-comic and melodramatic lesson about the incompatibility of humanity and innocence with the merciless mechanisms of politics. Despite occasional dramaturgical weaknesses and exaggerations, exceptionally vital and moving narrative cinema ( Lexicon of international film )

background

Lina Wertmüller also clearly expressed her anti-fascist sentiments in connection with love and anarchy . This becomes clear, among other things, through the figure of Spatoletti, who is portrayed as a boastful Mussolini admirer.

After Mimi, offended in his honor , Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato stood together in front of the camera for the second time under the direction of Lina Wertmüller in Love and Anarchy . In 1974, when they were carried away by an unusual fate in the azure blue sea, there was to be another collaboration between these three people in August . Giannini also took part in seven other productions under the direction of Wertmüller; including the film Seven Beauties , for which Wertmüller was the first woman to be nominated for an Oscar for directing .

Awards

For Giancarlo Giannini, being honored with the Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival was his first ever international film award.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Love and Anarchy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used