Il Decameron (1971)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Writers:

Giovanni Boccaccio (novel)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (writer)

Release Date:

1971 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio's "Decameron": A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends...

Plot Keywords:

Priest | Church | Convent | Nun | Painter

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Franco Citti	...	Ciappelletto
Ninetto Davoli	...	Andreuccio of Perugia
Jovan Jovanovic	...	Rustico (scenes deleted)
Vincenzo Amato	...	Masetto of Lamporecchio
Angela Luce	...	Peronella
Giuseppe Zigaina	...	Monk
Gabriella Frankel
Vincenzo Cristo
Pier Paolo Pasolini	...	Allievo di Giotto (as P.P. Pasolini)
Giorgio Iovine
Salvatore Bilardo
Vincenzo Ferrigno	...	Giannello
Luigi Seraponte
Antonio Diddio
Mirella Catanesi

Also Known As:

Decameron (West Germany)
Decamerone (West Germany)
Le Décaméron (France)
The Decameron (USA)

Runtime:

112 min

Country:

Italy | France | West Germany

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Italy:VM18 | Spain:18 | West Germany:18 (nf) | Argentina:18 | Australia:R | Canada:R | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Portugal:M/16 | Sweden:11 | UK:18 (video rating) (1988) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:R (re-rating) (1991) | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | USA:X (original rating)

Filming Locations:

Amalfi, Salerno, Campania, Italy

Company:

Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA)

Trivia:

The first film in Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life", continuing with I racconti di Canterbury (1972) and concluding with Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1974).

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Wie de Waarheid Zegt Moet Dood (1981)

The movie is lively, gutsy, and quite funny…

This is the first of Pasolini's three feature-film adaptations of obscene tales of antiquity, the other two being "The Canterbury Tales" and "The Arabian Nights." It contains ten of Boccaccio's most famous tales… The bawdiest story concerns a merchant who back-doors his partner's wife by promising to tell her his secret of turning a woman to a female horse and back to a woman again...

The tale of the two lovers sleeping together on the terrace is quite nice and very erotic, but the most hilarious one involves a young man who pretends he's a deaf mute in order to get into a convent... Once inside, he discovers that the sisters are very curious about all the excitement the world has made over sex and want to find out if it is worth it...

The stories are quite funny and the acting is adequate especially for non-professionals… But the film's charm is in its unrefined energy…It spends as much time showing nude men as it does showing nude women, which was quite unusual for its time…