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6 May 1982 (USA) more
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Near the Tiber river, in a Roman park, a prostitute was killed. The police tracks down people that were inside the park during that night... more | add synopsis
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Cast

 
Carlotta Barilli ... Serenella
Lorenza Benedetti ... Milly
Clorinda Celani ... Soraya
Vincenzo Ciccora ... Mayor
Alvaro D'Ercole ... Francolicchio
Giancarlo De Rosa ... Nino
Elena Fontana
Maria Fontana
Gabriella Giorgelli ... Esperia
Romano Labate ... Pipito
Silvio Laurenzi ... Homosexual
Alfredo Leggi ... Bostelli
Santina Lisio ... Esperia's mother
Allen Midgette ... Teodoro, the soldier
Ada Peragostini ... Maria
Emy Rocci ... Domenica
Wanda Rocci ... Prostitute
Francesco Ruiu ... Canticchia
Marisa Solinas ... Bruna
Erina Torelli ... Mariella
Renato Troiani ... Natalino
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Directed by
Bernardo Bertolucci 
 
Writing credits
Pier Paolo Pasolini (story)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (screenplay) &
Bernardo Bertolucci (screenplay) &
Sergio Citti (screenplay)

Produced by
Tonino Cervi .... producer (as Antonio Cervi)
 
Original Music by
Piero Piccioni 
Carlo Rustichelli 
 
Cinematography by
Giovanni Narzisi 
 
Film Editing by
Nino Baragli 
 
Costume Design by
Adriana Spadaro 
 
Production Management
Rodolfo Martello .... production supervisor
Ugo Tucci .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Adolfo Cagnacci .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Alessandro Fortini .... sound (as Sandro Fortini)
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Emanuele Di Coti .... chief lighting technician
Orlando Dolci .... key grip
Emilio Giannini .... camera operator
Enrico Umetelli .... assistant camera
Franco Valente .... assistant camera
 
Editorial Department
Sergio Montanari .... assistant editor
 
Other crew
Franco Carnevali .... script supervisor
 

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Also Known As:
The Grim Reaper
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88 min
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Referenced in An Opera of Violence (2003) (V) more

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3 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
A thorough,pragmatic,forthright movie,a little prolix, 4 July 2006
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Author: Cristi_Ciopron from CGSM, Soseaua Nationala 49

It feels,throughout this movie,the influence of Pasolini's mordant realism.This concept had its limitations (the listlessness towards an interior life highly differentiated,the uprearing of a messy and base life,etc.;also,the inherent,indispensable epic conventions, solutions and patterns),but also its obvious efficacy.(Later,Pasolini changed course and modus,heading towards a more elaborated aesthetics,both visually and intellectually;but then so did his pupil Bertolucci also.)

"La Commare ..." is Bertolucci's first film,released when the director was 21 years.It is a plain,articulated social anecdote,interested in depicting some characters:an unemployed bum;an oxygenated loan shark;a redneck soldier (a simpleton);an weirdo in sabots;two adolescents.The movie consists of five relations during the interrogatories following a mysterious crime.So,we have five different short incursions in the suspects' environments.This is done in an equable prosaic realistic note;the result is an objective,straight,efficacious cinema.

The subject belongs to Pasolini,and the script is Bertolucci's.

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