Ragazzi di Trastevere

directed by Umberto Lenzi. Italy, 1956, 19 min.

This film, the diploma submission at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Umberto Lenzi, a future key director of the cop movie genre, is loosely based on the novel Ragazzi di vita and is striking for its dialogue of unprecedented credibility, providing a foretaste of motifs and situations that were to be a hallmark of Pasolini’s work.

followed by

The big night

directed by Mauro Bolognini. Italy, France, 1959, 95 min.

Scintillone and Ruggeretto eke out their moronic existences in the bidonvilles of Rome amid theft, prostitution and violence. Co-scriptwriter Pasolini’s hustlers break onto the screen for the first time and ram the seedy side of society straight down the audience’s throats.

Informations

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Sala Cinema

Admission via steps in via Milano 9a