Il Decameron DVD 1971 Dekameron / Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini / Starring: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Pier Paolo Pasolini

UPC 5999550201089

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN HUNGARY

AUDIO: Italian mono, Hungarian mono

SUBTITLES: Hungarian

Runtime: 116 minutes

English Summary:

The Decameron (Italian: Il Decameron) is a 1971 film by Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the novel Il Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. It is the first movie of Pasolini's Trilogy of life, the others being The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights.

The film, shot in Neapolitan dialect at the behest of the director, offers a variety of episodes from the stories most characteristic of the work of Giovanni Boccaccio, and are linked through a pupil of the painter Giotto (played by Pasolini himself) who arrives in Naples to paint a mural.

In the first episode, Andreuccio of Perugia is cheated by a Neapolitan and dropped in a trough of excrement. The young man is found in the pulp by two thieves who are attempting a coup at a nearby church to steal the jewels from the tomb of a bishop who died a few days earlier. Andreuccio is persuaded and, with a brilliant ruse, manages to steal for himself the most beautiful ring of the deceased.

In the second episode, a young man, Masetto da Lamporecchio, is encouraged by some nuns in a convent to have sex with them. In fact, the young man already had this idea, pretending to be deaf and dumb. But the sisters prove insatiable, and the young man finally breaks his silence to protest that he cannot keep up with their demands. The mother prioress declares his sudden ability to speak a miracle from God, but this is merely an excuse to keep the young man at the convent.

Hungarian Summary:

1348-ban a firenzei pestis-járvány elol hét no és három férfi egy vidéki kastélyba menekül és történetekkel szórakoztatják magukat. Minden este királyt vagy királynőt választanak, aki kijelöli a témát, hogy miről szóljon az aznapi mese...

Cast / Szereplők:

• Franco Citti - Ciappelletto
• Ninetto Davoli - Andreuccio of Perugia
• Jovan Jovanovic - Rustico (scenes deleted)
• Vincenzo Amato - Masetto of Lamporecchio
• Angela Luce - Peronella
• Giuseppe Zigaina - Monk
• Gabriella Frankel
• Vincenzo Cristo
• Pier Paolo Pasolini - Allievo di Giotto (as P. P. Pasolini)
• Giorgio Iovine
• Salvatore Bilardo
• Vincenzo Ferrigno - Giannello
• Luigi Seraponte
• Antonio Diddio
• Mirella Catanesi