Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi
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Accattone ([akkatˈto:ne], lit. "vagabond", "scrounger" [1] [2]) is a 1961 Italian drama film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. It was Pasolini's first film as a director and premiered at the Venice Film Festival. [3]
Accattone: Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. With Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi. A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Nov 16, 2022 · Accattone (Franco Citti) is a shiftless pimp who loses his livelihood when the woman he works with is thrown in prison. Unable to support himself, the desperate Accattone sets his sights on luring a seemingly naive young woman (Franca Pasut) into sex work.
Accattone is a tale of desolate wasters in a desolate wasteland, thought to be adapted from the multi-platform poet's early novels. The film plays out like a traditional neo-realist flick, but ...
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Feb 15, 2012 · The seamy side of the sub-proletariat of Rome, a world of prostitutes, layabouts and petty thieves in which Franco Citti's Accattone, not quite making the grade.
In a seedy section of Rome, Vittorio (Franco Citti), a pimp with no other means to provide for himself, finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute, Maddalena (Silvana Corsini), is sent to prison.
Starring Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini. Poet and painter turned filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini courted controversy with his very first feature by using Catholic iconography and liturgical music to render a plaintive, brutally beautiful portrait of a shiftless Roman pimp and thief (then-nonprofessional Franco Citti, in a revelatory ...
Accattone. Poet and painter turned filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini courted controversy with his very first feature by using Catholic iconography and liturgical music to render a plaintive, brutally beautiful portrait of a shiftless Roman pimp and thief (then-nonprofessional Franco Citti, in a revelatory performance) whose life of petty crime ...
In the poor periphery of Rome of the 60's, despicable Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi (Franco Citti) is maintained by the hooker Maddalena (Silvana Corsini), spending the time with his useless idle friends.
Accattone was released in 1961. Accattone, known in the U.S.A. as Accattone! and The Scrounger, and The Procurer in the U.K., means “beggar” in English. It is based on Pasolini’s 1959 novel Una vita violenta (A Violent Life).
