The Magliari
{{Infobox film
| name = I Magliari
| image = The Magliari.jpg
| caption =
| director = Francesco Rosi
| writer = Francesco Rosi
Suso Cecchi d'Amico
| starring = Alberto Sordi
Renato Salvatori
| music = Piero Piccioni
| cinematography = Gianni Di Venanzo
| editing =
| producer = Franco Cristaldi
| distributor = Cristaldi Film
| released = {{Film date|1959}}
| runtime = 121 minutes
| country = Italy, France
| language = Italian
| budget =
}}
I magliari (internationally released as The Magliari) is a 1959 Italian drama film directed by Francesco Rosi.{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano – I film|publisher=Gremese Editore, 1991}} The film won the silver ribbon for best cinematography.{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia|title=I premi del cinema|year=1998|publisher=Gremese Editore, 1998|isbn=88-7742-221-1}}
In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."{{Cite web|title=Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera|url=https://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/08_febbraio_28/elenco_cento_film_d83cacd8-e5ce-11dc-ab61-0003ba99c667.shtml|access-date=2021-03-11|website=www.corriere.it}}
Plot summary
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Totonno is the leader of a gang of Italian workers who for years have been in West Germany. The group picks up rags and second hand cloths, marketing them to customers for sheer fabric with which to sew clothes. The work is dishonest.
Mario is a fellow Italian in Germany to work as a miner but decides to return to Italy after losing his job. Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and then offers Mario a job as “magliaro” (cloth seller). Mario decides to stay.
Totonno and his gang are exposed and decide to relocate to Hamburg. They encounters a band of Pole, who're doing the same dirty work. Mario begins an affair with Paula, the wife of a wealthy man.
Cast
- Alberto Sordi: Ferdinando Magliulo, detto Totonno
- Belinda Lee: Paula Mayer
- Renato Salvatori: Mario Balducci
- Nino Vingelli: Vincenzo
- Aldo Giuffrè: Armando
- Aldo Bufi Landi: Rodolfo Valentino
- Josef Dahmen: Mr. Mayer
Production
Filming took place in Hamburg, Germany in April–May 1959.{{cite news|title=MOVIE ACTIVITIES ALONG THE TIBER: Fellini Works as Rome Watches -- Dossier on Various Directors|author=ROBERT F. HAWKINS|work=New York Times|date=May 3, 1959|page=X9}}{{Cite magazine|magazine=Variety|url=https://archive.org/details/variety214-1959–03/page/n243/mode/2up?q=magliari|title=Rome|date=18 March 1959|page=93}}{{Cite magazine|magazine=Variety|url=https://archive.org/details/variety214-1959–04/page/n69/mode/1up?q=magliari|title=Rome|page=70|date=1 April 1959}}
It was one of a series of sexually aggressive roles Lee played in Europe.{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|title=A Tale of Two Blondes: Diana Dors and Belinda Lee|date=September 7, 2020|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/a-tale-of-two-blondes-diana-dors-and-belinda-lee/}}
Awards
It won best black and white photography at the Italian Film Critics Award.{{cite news|title=Rossellini Shoots New War Story -- Winners -- Censorship Snag|author=ROBERT F. HAWKINS.|work=New York Times|date=Mar 20, 1960|page=X7}}
Reception
Senses of Cinema wrote "Unfairly neglected by critics and historians, the film is usually regarded a prelude to the Neapolitan director's ambitious, labyrinthine chronicles of power and corruption of the 1960s and 70s."{{cite magazine|magazine=Senses of Cinema|url=http://sensesofcinema.com/2012/cteq/i-magliari/#3|title=I Magliari|first=Pasquale|last= Iannone|date=March 2012|issue=62}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0053032}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160517062230/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b73e2f7fb Magliari] at the British Film Institute{{better source needed|reason=Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert - if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. Or if none found, remove this 'better source needed' template. | date=October 2023}}
- {{TCMDb title|776224}}
- [https://letterboxd.com/film/the-magliari/ Magliari] at Letterbox
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Category:Films directed by Francesco Rosi
Category:Films set in West Germany
Category:Films about social realism
Category:Films about immigration to Germany
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