St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972) San Michele aveva un gallo
St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972)
DVDRip | MKV | 624x464 | XviD @ 1727 Kbps | 90 min | 1,24 Gb
Audio: Italiano AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama
DVDRip | MKV | 624x464 | XviD @ 1727 Kbps | 90 min | 1,24 Gb
Audio: Italiano AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Writers: Leo Tolstoy (story "The Divine and the Human"), Paolo Taviani
Stars: Giulio Brogi, Daniele Dublino, Renato Cestiè
Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his prison cell.
What starts as a light-hearted story, as our hero makes a ludicrous attempt to ignite a revolution, quickly turns into a tragic tale of a basically nice guy who tries to preserve his ideals in inhumane conditions. Although the script is an adaptation of a Tolstoy's short story, it looks more like something Kafka would have written if he had had more sympathy for his characters. The film reminds me of a 19th century caricature by Honore Daumier: a kid breathes on the windowpane of a shop, is caught by a guard, brought to trial, spends his entire life in jail, is released an old man, comes to the same windowpane and defiantly breathes on it, another guard arrives, but the man is already dead. The most beautiful scenes can be found at the end of the film, where the splendid and barren landscape of Venetian marshes is used as the adequate setting for the almost unbearably poignant finale.
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St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972) San Michele aveva un gallo
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