OSTIA
Italy, 1970
Director: Sergio Citti. Supervision: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Citti. Cinematographer: Mario Mancini. Set and Costume designer Mario Ambrosino. Art director: Claudio Giambanco. Editor: Nino Baragli, Carlo Reali. Film score: Franco De Masi. Cast and characters: Laurent Terzieff (Bandiera), Anita Sanders (Monica), Franco Citti (Rabbino), Ninetto Davoli (Florino), Lamberto Maggiorani (the father of the girl), Celestino Compagnoni and Lucia Tirinnanzi (parents of the two brothers), Alberto Del Prete (Aria), Settimio Piconi (Baffo). Production: Alvaro Mancori – A.M. Chrétien. Length 105’.
Format: 35mm. Source: CSC – Cineteca Nazionale under licence from Movietime.
Original version. Subtitles: English
Set at the end of the 60s in a Ostia which has now disappeared, two brothers, Bandiera and Rabbino, anarchists and anticlericals, live on thefts and petty tricks. When they save a young girl from her abusive father, they both remember a tragic and devastating episode from their childhood: their ambiguous and troubled relationship is turned upside down.
“The best critics […] found Sergio Citti’s first film, ‘Ostia’, beautiful. It was indeed a beautiful film: only Rossellini had managed to make such beautiful films with such simplicity and naturalness. The diabolical was in the film, not in its form. A success like that of ‘Ostia’ is explained through the authenticity of the personal experience relived in the work: the love between two brothers, the woman who becomes part of it as an element of Evil, the world around naked, devoid of any ornament. ” (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Sunday 10th April, 2022 – 11:10am