Mortacci
{{Infobox film
| name = Mortacci
| image = Mortacci.jpg
| caption =
| director =Sergio Citti
| writer = David Grieco
Vincenzo Cerami
Ottavio Jemma
Sergio Citti
| starring = {{plainlist|
- Carol Alt
- Malcolm McDowell
- Gemelli Ruggeri
- Galeazzo Benti
- Andy Luotto
- Aldo Giuffrè
- Alvaro Vitali
- Michela Miti
- Nino Frassica
- Sergio Rubini
- Mariangela Melato
- Vittorio Gassman
}}
| music = Francesco De Masi
| cinematography = Cristiano Pogany
| editing = Ugo De Rossi
| producer = Gioanfranco Piccioli
Giorgio Leopardi
| language = Italian
| released = {{Film date|1989}}
| country = Italy
| runtime = 110 min
}}
Mortacci is a 1989 Italian black comedy film, directed by Sergio Citti.{{cite book|last=Roberto Poppi|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|publisher=Gremese, 2000|isbn=887742429X}}{{cite book|last=Sergio Toffetti|title=La terra vista dalla luna: il cinema di Sergio Citti|year=1993|publisher=Lindau, 1993|isbn=8871800737}}{{cite book|last=Maurizio De Benedictis|title=Sergio Citti. Lo "straniero" del cinema italiano|year=2008|publisher=Lithos, 2008|isbn=978-8889604373}}
The film is set in a cemetery, where the dead souls gather every night, awaiting permission to enter the afterlife. They reminisce about their past lives and the circumstances surrounding their deaths, while observing the living and witnessing their misdeeds.
Plot summary
In a small town cemetery, the deceased gather every night for a meeting. They are doomed to remain there until the last living person who remembers them passes away. Through recollections of their lives and deaths, various characters are introduced: Alma, a theater actress (Carol Alt) who witnesses every night the futile attempt of her ex-lover (Malcolm McDowell) to commit suicide over her grave; Angelo, a womanizer (Andy Luotto) who died out of shame; Felice and Giggetto, two beggars (Eraldo Turra and Luciano Manzalini) who leave the group when the last woman (Mariangela Melato) who remembers them dies during a visit to their grave.
The narration is interrupted by the arrival of Lucillo (Sergio Rubini), a soldier presumed dead in a Lebanese military mission, who is forced by his fellow villagers to actually die, as they have built a lucrative business around his hero status and fame. Cemetery warden Domenico (Vittorio Gassman) oversees the operations, from opening the gates to stealing valuables from the dead, unaware that the deceased observe him and everything that occurs in the small cemetery.
Cast
- Vittorio Gassman as Domenico
- Carol Alt as Alma Rossetti
- Malcolm McDowell as Edmondo
- Galeazzo Benti as Tommaso Grillo
- Mariangela Melato as Jolanda
- Sergio Rubini as Lucillo Cardellini
- Nino Frassica as La guida
- Andy Luotto as Angelo Cuoco, aka "Scopone"
- Aldo Giuffrè as the undertaker
- Alvaro Vitali as Torquato
- Silvana Bosi as Torquato's mother
- Eraldo Turra as Felice
- Luciano Manzalini as Giggetto
- Donald O'Brien as Archibald Williams
- Michela Miti as the bartender
- Gina Rovere as Ada
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0097913}}
Category:1989 black comedy films
Category:Films directed by Sergio Citti
Category:Films scored by Francesco De Masi
Category:Italian black comedy films
Category:Films with screenplays by Vincenzo Cerami
Category:1980s Italian-language films
Category:Films set in cemeteries
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