Il momento della verità (1965)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Francesco Rosi

Writers:

Pedro Beltrán (screenplay)
Pedro Beltrán (story)

Release Date:

3 March 1965 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Bullfighter | Procession | Bullfighting | Bullfight

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Miguel Mateo 'Miguelín'	...	Miguel Romero 'Miguelín'
José Gómez Sevillano
Pedro Basauri 'Pedrucho'	...	Himself
Linda Christian	...	Linda, American woman
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Curro Carmona
Luque Gago
Salvador Mateo
Gregorio Sánchez

Also Known As:

El momento de la verdad (Spain)
The Moment of Truth

Runtime:

Spain:110 min | USA:103 min

Country:

Italy | Spain

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:18 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15

Company:

As Films Producción

Movie Connections:

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This movie dissipated much of my disgust at bull fighting.

To make a good movie about bull fighting one should first contract a great matador: and Miguel Mateo Miguelin could hardly be braver or more graceful. I saw the movie despite my modern distaste for that ahem sport: and was at least semi-converted. In ancient northern religions, with their male animal gods, the animal god presents himself to the people to be ritually slaughtered. The ritual must be beautiful. The ritual must be risky: potentially fatal for the killing-man-priest as well as for the animal-god. Migueline shows how it's done when it's done right.