Mortacci

Mortacci
Directed by Sergio Citti
Produced by Gioanfranco Piccioli
Giorgio Leopardi
Written by David Grieco
Vincenzo Cerami
Ottavio Jemma
Sergio Citti
Starring Vittorio Gassman
Malcolm McDowell
Mariangela Melato
Sergio Rubini
Music by Francesco De Masi
Cinematography Cristiano Pogany
Edited by Ugo De Rossi
Release dates
 1989
Running time
 110 min
Country Italy
Language Italian

Mortacci is a 1989 Italian comedy film directed by Sergio Citti.[1][2][3]

Plot summary

In a cemetery in Rome, at night, the soldier Camillo arrives among the graves. The rude and crude keeper Domenico welcomes him and makes him sit in a chapel. Camillo is looking for happiness, so Domenico ushers Camillo in a coffin, and closes him inside. In a short time Camillo dies, and is found as raised in the world of the dead. In fact he is accepted by the clique of the souls of the cemetery, led by Domenico alive. So Camillo, to pass the time, recounts the adventures of her young life, when he was a soldier, returned to his country to war. In the village Camillo, despair for many years, was considered a hero, and now that he was back, the citizens of the country, for fear of having economic problems on the tourism organizations who had long served in the county to celebrate the "sanctity" of the soldier disappeared, they tried to kill in all the ways the poor Camillo. Even the priest was against him!

After Camillo finishes telling his story, the gang of the dead souls is shocked by the fight of two lives people, who love the same girl. The two suitors die in a duel, and eventually the girl dies of grief. The fate decides to take life too cruel Domenico, while the group of the deceased sinks ever further into oblivion. In fact, this is the fate that seek to have the souls of the cemetery: to reach the Limb thanks to the complete forgetfulness of their living relatives.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 2000. ISBN 887742429X.
  2. ↑ Sergio Toffetti. La terra vista dalla luna: il cinema di Sergio Citti. Lindau, 1993. ISBN 8871800737.
  3. ↑ Maurizio De Benedictis. Sergio Citti. Lo "straniero" del cinema italiano. Lithos, 2008. ISBN 8889604379.

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