Down and Dirty (film)

• Nino Manfredi: Giacinto
• Maria Luisa Santella: Iside
• Francesco Anniballi: Domizio
• Franco Merli: Fernando

, Dirty ugly and the Commons ( original title: brutti, sporchi e cattivi ) is a feature film directed by Ettore Scola 's 1976 he won at the Cannes Film Festival in the same year the prize for best director..

Action

The film tells the story of a large family that lives in a slum in the suburbs of Rome. Your livelihood they deserve among other things, theft and prostitution. Four generations live together in a barrack, which is dominated by the one-eyed patriarch Giacinto. This has for the loss of his eye a high insurance premium is paid, all would like to bring in itself. As Giacinto, brings his mistress, a prostitute into the house, the situation escalates; the family tries to poison him, but he survived, ignites in anger at the barracks and shoots one of his sons. At the end of the film one arranges himself in a status quo.

Reviews

" Stylistically, working with the means of neo-realism, the film avoids sentimentality and rigorously its sentimentality. "

"Nothing is hope in Scola's film, not the church, not the family, not the class [ ... ] The vulgarity is by no means limited to the struggle for survival, it has itself become the elixir of life. And Scola brings us so incredibly close that we can not help as part of it. (...) You feel a little beaten up a little ridiculed, but also a little relieved after this film. Then Scola has sought after positions for opportunities to love people carefully "

Theatrical adaptation

The play premiered in Cologne has an adapted by the director Karin Beier version of the film as a stage play in Halle Kalk in January 2010.