Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society.Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society.Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society.
- Awards
- 2 wins
Helmut Berger
- Hotel Page (segment "La Strega Bruciata Viva")
- (as Helmut Steinbergher)
Ninetto Davoli
- Baciu Miao (segment "La terra vista dalla luna")
- (as Nenetto Davoli)
- Directors
- Mauro Bolognini(segment Senso civico)
- Vittorio De Sica(segment Sera come le altre, Una)
- Pier Paolo Pasolini(segment Terra vista dalla luna, La)
- Writers
- Giuseppe Patroni Griffi(segment Strega bruciata viva, La)
- Cesare Zavattini(segment Strega bruciata viva, La)
- Agenore Incrocci(segment Senso civico)
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- TriviaClint Eastwood was given the choice of taking $25,000 in cash or $20,000 and a new Ferrari by Producer Dino De Laurentiis to play a small part in this movie. He chose the money and the Ferrari. He got along well with Silvana Mangano and Director Vittorio De Sica.
- Quotes
Industrialist: I make a perfume. But I can't make it any better or it would destabilise the market.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Sunday Night: Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti (1966)
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1966 - Italy - 'nuff said!
These five shorts have an undeniable breezy quality, commenting on the freewheeling Italian lifestyle of the swingin' sixties and also offering some timeless "period" storytelling. The favorite is "The Witch Burned Alive". Visconti's work is redolent of Fellini's "Juliet of the Spirits"' upper class shenanigans, with the celebrity angle making Woody Allen's comments nearly half a century later seem, well, tired and inferior. Silvana Mangano appears a bit, well, exhausted in this film and others of the series, like Chrisitna Applegate on a bad day, but the costuming and Kitzbuehl apres ski setting in a chalet make Visconti's short irresistible. The Pasolini work is charming in a semi-dada-esque way, especially with the knowledge that the young male pimply faced "actor' may well have been really a boy toy from the streets of Roma. The story has a punk rock feel that rings with folkloric quirkiness and white magic.
"Civic Spirit" is the most emblematic of the five, very au courant of the era, using an injured man as an excuse to barrel through Rome traffic at top speed under the guise of being hospital bound, while the driving beauty is really just using the poor hapless man as a shill to get to a rendezvous on time-- very cute, and Silvana looks fabulous once again, as she rushes to meet her playboy date. This film is on cable on occasion late at night and worth sitting through for the afficionado of these fine directors. Brava to Silvana, an actress largely forgotten in the pantheon of stars of international merit. Two pinkies held semi-high.
"Civic Spirit" is the most emblematic of the five, very au courant of the era, using an injured man as an excuse to barrel through Rome traffic at top speed under the guise of being hospital bound, while the driving beauty is really just using the poor hapless man as a shill to get to a rendezvous on time-- very cute, and Silvana looks fabulous once again, as she rushes to meet her playboy date. This film is on cable on occasion late at night and worth sitting through for the afficionado of these fine directors. Brava to Silvana, an actress largely forgotten in the pantheon of stars of international merit. Two pinkies held semi-high.
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- Also known as
- Hexen von heute
- Filming locations
- Kitzbuhel, Austria(First Episode)
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- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
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- 1.66 : 1
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