| Mortacci | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Sergio Citti |
| Written by | David Grieco Vincenzo Cerami Ottavio Jemma Sergio Citti |
| Produced by | Gioanfranco Piccioli Giorgio Leopardi |
| Starring | Vittorio Gassman Malcolm McDowell Mariangela Melato Sergio Rubini |
| Cinematography | Cristiano Pogany |
| Edited by | Ugo De Rossi |
| Music by | Francesco De Masi |
Release date | 1989 |
Running time | 110 min |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Mortacci is a 1989 Italian dark comedy film, directed by Sergio Citti.[1][2][3]
The film is set in a cemetery, where the dead souls gather every night until they can be allowed to enter the afterlife. They recall their respective pasts and the circumstances of their deaths, while spying on the living people and witnessing their crimes.
Plot summary
In a small town cemetery, the deceased every night host a meeting. They are doomed not to enter the next stage of the afterlife, till the last living human who remembers them passes away. Through the recollection of their lives and deaths, the different characters are introduced: Alma, a theater actress (Carol Alt) who witnesses every night the futile attempt of her ex-lover (Malcolm McDowell) to commit suicide over her grave; Angelo, a womanizer (Andy Luotto) who died out of shame; Felice and Giggetto, two beggars (Eraldo Turra and Luciano Manzalini) who soon leave the group as the last woman (Mariangela Melato) who remembers them dies while visiting their grave.
The narration is interrupted by the arrival of Lucillo (Sergio Rubini), a soldier who was presumed dead in a military mission in Lebanon and who is forced by his fellow villagers to die for real, as they built a huge business on his hero status and fame. The cemetery warden Domenico (Vittorio Gassman) supervises all the operations, from opening the gates to stealing valuables from the dead, without knowing that the deceased see him and everything that happens in the small cemetery.
Cast
- Vittorio Gassman as Domenico
- Carol Alt as Alma Rossetti
- Malcolm McDowell as Edmondo
- Galeazzo Benti as Tommaso Grillo
- Mariangela Melato as Jolanda
- Sergio Rubini as Lucillo Cardellini
- Nino Frassica as La guida
- Andy Luotto as Angelo Cuoco, aka "Scopone"
- Aldo Giuffré as the undertaker
- Alvaro Vitali as Torquato
- Silvana Bosi as Torquato's mother
- Eraldo Turra as Felice
- Luciano Manzalini as Giggetto
- Donald O'Brien as Archibald Williams
- Michela Miti as the bartender
- Gina Rovere as Ada
References
- ↑ Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 2000. ISBN 887742429X.
- ↑ Sergio Toffetti (1993). La terra vista dalla luna: il cinema di Sergio Citti. Lindau, 1993. ISBN 8871800737.
- ↑ Maurizio De Benedictis (2008). Sergio Citti. Lo "straniero" del cinema italiano. Lithos, 2008. ISBN 978-8889604373.