Accattone

Accattone (1961)

Timing: 1:57 (117 min)

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All about film

Video 4

Photo 15

Actors and characters

Release date

1961-09-25

Country

Italy

Production

Arco Film, Cino del Duca

Genre

Drama

Budget

$50

Revenue

$0

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Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Actors

Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi, Adriana Asti, Luciano Conti, Luciano Gonini, Renato Capogna, Alfredo Leggi, Galeazzo Riccardi
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Alfredo Bini, Cino Del Duca

Operator

Tonino Delli Colli

Composer

Artist

Audition

Editing

Nino Baragli, Eliseo Boschi
All team (21)

• Like most of Pasolini's later works, "Accattone" is based on his own literary work – the novel "A Harsh Life." In the novel, the protagonist was named Tommaso and was a typical Pasolini bisexual hero. To overcome censorship restrictions, he had to remove the hero's bisexual tendencies and, at the same time, give him a new name – "Accattone."
• The film also marked the debut of actor Franco Citti. Introduced by Pasolini to his older brother Sergio Citti, who worked on the screenplay, Franco then starred in six more Pasolini films and proved to be a rare non-professional Pasolinian performer who managed to make a decent career in cinema.
• Pasolini liked Chitti’s voice and regretted that it ultimately had to be dubbed. Conversely, he later repeatedly invited Franco to dub the roles of other performers.
• Sergio Chitti played a small role as a waiter, and his other brother, Silvio Chitti, played Sabino, Accattone’s brother.
• Bernardo Bertolucci’s first job in cinema: he was an assistant director.
• The film’s soundtrack features music by Johann Sebastian Bach (an aria from Orchestral Suite No. 3 and fragments of other works).
• Like most of Pasolini’s subsequent films, “Accattone” is based on his own literary work – the novel “A Hard Life”. In the novel, the protagonist was named Tommaso and was a typical Pasolini bisexual hero. To overcome censorship restrictions, he had to remove the hero’s bisexual tendencies and, at the same time, give him a new name – “Accattone”.
• The film's soundtrack features music by Johann Sebastian Bach (the aria from Orchestral Suite No. 3 and fragments of other works).