Romano Cardarelli
1) Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero, Stamattina alle 10 in via dei fiori nella nota casa di tolleranza
Series
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
Description
A country peasant goes to Rome with a plan to assassinate Benito Mussolini. His underground contact in the network of anarchists offers him a hideout in her brothel where he falls in love with a young prostitute.
2) Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto =: investigation of a citizen above suspicion
Series
Criterion collection volume 682
Language
Italiano
Description
Elio Petri's acclaimed Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector investigating a heinous crime-which he committed himself. Both a penetrating character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian crackdowns by the Italian government in the late 1960s and early '70s, Petri's kinetic portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable...
Series
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
Description
Mimi, a Sicilian laborer, refuses to vote for the Mafia's candidate and consequently loses his job, his wife, and his home. He revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful radical Fiorella, with whom he starts a new life. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor--an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences.