The Hawks and the Sparrows / Pigsty ( Uccellacci e uccellini / Porcile )

The Hawks and the Sparrows / Pigsty (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Uccellacci e uccellini / Porcile
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
187 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1966 - 1969 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Written By:
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Actors:
Totò ..... Innocenti Totò / Brother Cicillo
Ninetto Davoli ..... Innocenti Ninetto / Brother Ninetto
Femi Benussi ..... Luna
Umberto Bevilacqua ..... Incensurato
Renato Capogna ..... Scoundrels Leader
Flaminia Siciliano ..... Scoundrel
Pietro Davoli ..... Scoundrel
Rosina Moroni ..... Poor Cottage Owner
Lena Lin Solaro ..... Urganda
Gabriele Baldini ..... Dante's Dentist
Ricardo Redi ..... Mansion Owner
Rossana Di Rocco ..... Ninetto's Girlfriend
Alfredo Leggi ..... Starving Peasant
Renato Montalbano
Giovanni Tarallo
Pierre Clémenti ..... Young cannibal
Jean-Pierre Léaud ..... Julian Klotz
Alberto Lionello ..... Mr. Klotz
Ugo Tognazzi ..... Herdhitze
Anne Wiazemsky ..... Ida
Margarita Lozano ..... Madame Klotz
Marco Ferreri ..... Hans Günther
Franco Citti ..... Cannibal
Ninetto Davoli ..... Maracchione

Synopsis:

From its sung opening credits, Hawks and Sparrows (Uccellacci e uccellini) is a wonderfully free-form picaresque fable that lampoons politics, religion and the state of modern Italy, as the beloved comic actor Totò, Pasolini regular Ninetto Davoli and a talking crow wander the landscape through a gauntlet of unexpected encounters. Pigsty (Porcile) is one of his most controversial works, interspersing the mute wanderings of cannibalistic savages against a barren, volcanic earth with the tale of Julian (played by Nouvelle Vague icon Jean-Pierre Léaud), his radically politicised fiancée Ida (Anne Wiazemsky, Au Hasard Balthazar), and the financial machinations of his father Herr Klotz in contemporary industrialised Germany. Both films demonstrate a restless, pioneering artist's exploration of the natural world contrasted with the societal structures that govern human life. Visually inspired and playing by no-one's rules other than his own, these two brilliant works by Pasolini are presented on Blu-ray for the first time in a new limited edition.

The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
An old man and his son are walking along the road when they suddenly meet a speaking crow, which represents Marxist beliefs. They are soon moved back 750 years in time, changed into monks and sent by St. Francis to convert the hawks and the sparrows to Christianity.
Pigsty (1969)
Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 14 April, 2016.

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