Eureka - Masters of Cinema

The debut feature of Italian filmmaker-novelist-poet-provocateur Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salò, or: The 120 Days of Sodom; The Gospel According to Matthew; The Decameron), Accattone rocked the cinema world with its depictions, at once raw and elegant, of the underside of Roman street life and, in the process, seemed to announce a new direction for Italian films: a neo-neorealism.

On the mean streets of Rome, Accattones eponymous pimp (played by Franco Citti, one of a remarkable cast of local non-professionals) leads a hand-to-mouth existence on the very margins of society: prostituting, scrounging, exploiting. When his prize prostitute Maddalena is arrested and jailed, the pimps fortunes dwindle, and he is forced to confront his own existence. 

The work of one of Italys foremost auteurs, Accattone combines a fascination with poverty, sexual mores, and the entrapments of society, with a sense of humanity and sanctity rarely seen in cinema. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Pasolinis debut alongside his feature-length 1965 documentary Comizi damore [Love Meetings] in a special Dual Format Blu-ray + DVD edition.

Version: : Blu-Ray + DVD (import)

EAN : 5060000700459

Label : Eureka Masters of Cinema

Distributor : Eureka

Inspelningsår : 1961