Brutti, sporchi e cattivi

Infobox_Film
name =Brutti, sporchi e cattivi


imdb_id =0074252
writer = Sergio Citti,
Ettore Scola,
Ruggero Maccari
starring = Nino Manfredi,
Marcella Michelangeli,
Marcella Battisti,
Francesco Crescimone,
Silvia Ferluga,
Zoe Incrocci,
Adriana Russo,
Franco Merli,
Maria Bosco
director = Ettore Scola
producer = Carlo Ponti
Romano Dandi
distributor =
released = 1976
runtime = 115 min.
language = Italian
music =Armando Trovajoli
awards =
budget =

"Brutti, sporchi e cattivi" (English title: "Ugly, Dirty and Bad") is an Italian language film directed by Ettore Scola and released in 1976.

It won the Prix de la Mise en scène at Cannes Film Festival. Nino Manfredi plays the main protagonist.

Plot

The film tells the grotesque story of a large family living in an extremely poor shantytown of the periphery of Rome. The main protagonist is one-eyed patriarch Giacinto (Manfredi). Four generations of his sons and relatives are cramped together in his shack, managing to get by mainly on thieving and whoring, among other things more or less respectable.

For the loss of his eye, an insurance company has paid Giacinto a large sum. Moved by greed, the whole family (including his wife, who is enraged by Giacinto's bringing home a fat prostitute he has fallen in love with, and who has become his mistress) try to poison him in order to inherit the money. However, Giacinto survives. In a frenzy of anger, he sets fire to his home and shoots one of his sons with a hunting rifle (the son survives).

In the meantime Giacinto has sold the house to a Neapolitan immigrant family. The film ends with Giacinto living in a newly built exceedingly crowded shack with both his mistress and his wife, together with an apparently reconciliated family and the newcomers as well.

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