My Name Is Rocco Papaleo
{{short description|1971 film}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = My Name Is Rocco Papaleo
| image = Permette-rocco-papaleo.jpg
| caption = DVD cover
| director = Ettore Scola
| producer =
| writer = Peter Goldfarb
Ruggero Maccari
Ettore Scola
| starring = Marcello Mastroianni
| cinematography = Claudio Cirillo
| editing =
| distributor =
| released = {{film date|df=yes|1971}}
| runtime = 120 minutes
| country = Italy
| language = Italian
}}
My Name Is Rocco Papaleo ({{langx|it|Permette? Rocco Papaleo}}) is a 1971 Italian film directed by Ettore Scola.
Description
The film follows a former boxer from Sicily (Mastroianni) who emigrates to the United States, but rather than success he finds only poverty and loneliness.{{cite book |title=The Cinema of Ettore Scola |editor1-first=Rémi |editor1-last=Lanzoni |editor2-first=Edward |editor2-last=Bowen |chapter=Trevico-Torino: Viaggio nel Fiat-Nam: Metamorphoses of Urban Space and the Multiplication of the Factory in the Age of the Anthropocene |author1-first=Emiliano |author1-last=Guaraldo |author2-first=Federica |author2-last=Colleoni |page=194 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WRioDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT194 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |year=2020 |isbn=9780814343807}} The film was shot partly in Chicago, and was made while Scola was doing post-production for Trevico-Turin: Voyage in Fiatnam, another "politically engaged" film.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6_vG0ocP_7UC&pg=PA294 |chapter=Scola, Ettore |pages=294- |title=The A to Z of Italian Cinema |first=Gino |last=Moliterno |publisher=Scarecrow |year=2009 |isbn=9780810870598}} It was called "a harsh attack on American consumer values and their soul-destroying materialism".{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=csVcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1722 |chapter=Ettore Scola (1931-) |pages=1721- |title=Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies |editor1-first=Gaetana |editor1-last=Marrone |editor2-first=Paolo |editor2-last=Puppa |publisher=Routledge |year=2006 |isbn=9781135455293}}
Plot
{{No plot|date=May 2023}}
Cast
- Marcello Mastroianni as Rocco
- Lauren Hutton as Jenny
- Bruce Vilanch{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oWQ1Qe3g5hkC&pg=PA129 |page=129 |title=Bears on Bears: Interviews and Discussions |authorlink=Ron Suresha |first=Ron |last=Suresha |publisher=Lethe |year=2002 |isbn=9781590212448}}
- Brizio Montinaro
- Paola Natale
- Margot Novak
- Tom Reed
- Umberto Travaglini
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0069079|title=My Name Is Rocco Papaleo}}
{{Ettore Scola}}
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Category:1970s sports comedy films
Category:Italian sports comedy films
Category:1970s Italian-language films
Category:Films directed by Ettore Scola
Category:Films shot in Chicago
Category:Films about immigration to the United States
Category:Foreign films set in the United States
Category:Films with screenplays by Ruggero Maccari
Category:Films with screenplays by Ettore Scola
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