THE EARTH AS SEEN FROM THE MOON
Italy/France, 1966
Original title: La terra vista dalla luna
Director, Story and Screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Cinematographer: Giuseppe Rotunno. Art director: Mario Garbuglia, Piero Poletto. Costumista: Piero Tosi. Sculpture: Pino Zac. Film score: Ennio Morricone. Editor: Nino Baragli. Assistant Director: Sergio Citti. Still Photographer: Angelo Novi. Cast and characters: Totò (Ciancicato Miao), Ninetto Davoli (Baciù Miao), Silvana Mangano (Assurdina Caì), Mario Cipriani (a priest), Laura Betti (a tourist), Luigi Leoni (the tourist’s wife). Production: Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica (Roma) Les Productions Artistes Associés (Parigi). Producer: Dino De Laurentiis. Length 31’.
Third episode of the omnibus film ‘Le Streghe’ (The Witches), the other episodes were directed by Mauro Bolognini, Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini e Franco Rossi.
Format: 35mm. Source: Cineteca di Bologna under licence from Park Circus.
Original version Subtitles: English.
Ciancicato Miao, a widower, remarries with Assurda Caì who, deaf and dumb, transforms her hut into a neat fairy tale house. Ciancicato and his son, never happy with what they have, want a new one and to make up for money they plan a fake suicide. A comic tale in which ideology is hidden, mysterious, unpredictable.
“Totò is such a human person, he is so naive, so normal, so clownish … all I did was to accentuate the clownish side. The same thing for Ninetto… there is something magical about Ninetto, and I have accentuated this character. This is what I actually did: I pointed out features that already existed, I didn’t invent anything. ” (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Monday 11th April, 2022 – 7:45pm
Wednesday 13 April 2022, h. 8:45 pm
