Italy
1965
108 minutes
Black and White
1.85:1
Italian
Watch Film for $5333
Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions in this astonishing 1965 debut from Marco Bellocchio. Charged by a coolly assured style, shocking perversity, and savage gallows humor, Fists in the Pocket was a gleaming ice pick in the eye of bourgeois family values and Catholic morality, a truly unique work that continues to rank as one of the great achievements of Italian cinema.
| Alessandro | Lou Castel |
| Giulia | Paola Pitagora |
| Augusto | Marino Masé |
| Mother | Liliana Gerace |
| Leone | Pierluigi Troglio |
| Lucia | Jenny MacNeil |
| Director | Marco Bellocchio |
| Screenplay | Marco Bellocchio |
| Producer | Enzo Doria |
| Cinematography | Alberto Marrama |
| Editing | Silvano Agosti |
| Music | Ennio Morricone |
| Production manager | Ugo Novello |
| Art direction | Gisella Longo |
The eighty-one-year-old Ennio Morricone has been composing hypnotic music for film since the early 1960s, for projects ranging from spaghetti westerns (his whistling, woodwindy five-note theme for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is one of the most recognizable in movie history) to Italian...
Made in 1965 and still considered by many to be Marco Bellocchio’s masterpiece, Fists in the Pocket foreshadows the years of student protest in a family tragedy bordering on horror. This seminal first feature catapulted the twenty-six-year-old Bellocchio to fame and introduced a controversial...
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