Parenti serpenti
| Parenti serpenti | |
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| Directed by | Mario Monicelli |
| Written by | Carmine Amoroso (play), Piero De Bernardi, Mario Monicelli, Suso Cecchi d'Amico |
| Produced by | Giovanni Di Clemente |
| Starring | Alessandro Haber |
| Cinematography | Franco Di Giacomo |
| Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni |
| Music by | Adelio Cogliati |
Release date | 1992 |
Running time | 105 min |
| Country | Italy: Sulmona (Abruzzo) |
| Language | Italian |
Parenti serpenti (also known as Dearest Relatives, Poisonous Relations) is a 1992 Italian black comedy film written and directed by Mario Monicelli.[1][2][3] It won the Silver Ribbon for Best Costumes.[4]
Plot summary
The film is based on a play by Carmine Amoroso set in Lanciano, featuring a typical family of Abruzzo. The story, however, in the film version takes place in Sulmona, near L'Aquila, where the paesants are celebrating the holidays of Christmas.
The grandmother of the family protagonist invites all her children and grandchildren at his home in Sulmona to celebrate the holidays and soon the old lady and her husband come to know all the sadness that possess young children. They are unhappy, though they have a family. They are dissatisfied with life and depressed. They want to run away but do not know what to do and why they do take comfort from her grandmother as if they are children.
After the day of Christmas spent to church and playing bingo at home, the grandmother begins to have some dark thoughts. She is afraid that in a few years she will be forced to be locked up in the poorhouse, and so he asks the sons to put her up with the old husband in one of their homes. As a metter of fact the sons of the lady don't live in Abruzzo. The sons are initially pleased with the request, but then they do not know how to do. No one wants to take on this responsibility and so in secret all planning the death of the elderly couple, leaving open the gas cylinder. During the New Year's Eve, meanwhile all the members of the family are celebrating at the restaurant the event, the couple inadvertently blow up the house and they die in the burning.
Cast
- Marina Confalone: Lina
- Alessandro Haber: Alfredo
- Tommaso Bianco: Michele
- Cinzia Leone: Gina
- Eugenio Masciari: Alessandro
- Paolo Panelli: Grandfather Saverio
- Monica Scattini: Milena
References
- ^ Leonardo De Franceschi. Lo sguardo eclettico: il cinema di Mario Monicelli. Marsilio, 2001. ISBN 8831777637.
- ^ Ivana Delvino. I film di Mario Monicelli. Gremese Editore, 2008. ISBN 8884404770.
- ^ Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I Film. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401372.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Enrico Lancia. I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 88-7742-221-1.
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