Directed by:
Pier Paolo PasoliniScreenplay:
Pier Paolo PasoliniCinematography:
Giuseppe RuzzoliniComposer:
Ennio MorriconeCast:
Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky, Ninetto Davoli, Susanna Pasolini, Alfonso Gatto, Luigi Barbini, Laura Betti, Carlo De Mejo (more)Plots(1)
A handsome, enigmatic stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives at a bourgeois household in Milan and successively seduces the son, the mother, the daughter and the father, not forgetting the maid. Then, as abruptly and mysteriously as he arrived, he departs. In this cool, richly complex and provocative political allegory, director Pier Paolo Pasolini uses his schematic plot to explore family dynamics, the intersection of class and sex, and the nature of different sexualities. (British Film Institute (BFI))
(more)Cast
Silvana Mangano
Italy
Best movies:
Conversation Piece (1974)
Ludwig: The Mad King of Bavaria (1973)
The Great War (1959)
Terence Stamp
UK
Best movies:
Valkyrie (2008)
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Massimo Girotti
Italy
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
In the Name of the Law (1949)
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Anne Wiazemsky
West Germany
Best movies:
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Theorem (1968)
La Chinoise (1967)
Ninetto Davoli
Italy
Best movies:
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Ostia (1970)
Theorem (1968)
Susanna Pasolini
Italy
Best movies:
The Gospel According to Matthew (1964)
Theorem (1968)
Alfonso Gatto
Italy
Best movies:
The Gospel According to Matthew (1964)
Theorem (1968)
The Context (1976)
Luigi Barbini
Best movies:
The Gospel According to Matthew (1964)
Theorem (1968)
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Laura Betti
Italy
Best movies:
1900 (1976)
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Carlo De Mejo
Italy
Best movies:
Theorem (1968)
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
The Outside Man (1972)
Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia
Italy
Best movies:
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Theorem (1968)
Cesare Garboli
Italy
Best movies:
Theorem (1968)