Accattone

Accattone
Promotional poster
Directed byPier Paolo Pasolini
Written byPier Paolo Pasolini
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyTonino Delli Colli
Edited byNino Baragli
Music byJohann Sebastian Bach
Production
company
Arco Film
Distributed byTitanus
Release date
  • 31 August 1961 (1961-08-31) (Italy)
Running time
117 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Accattone ([akkatˈto:ne], lit. "vagabond", "scrounger"[1][2]) is a 1961 Italian drama film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. It was Pasolini's first film as a director and premiered at the Venice Film Festival.[3] In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[4]

  1. ^ Sisto, A. (13 March 2014). Film Sound in Italy: Listening to the Screen. Springer. ISBN 9781137387714 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Bertellini, Giorgio (14 December 2017). The Cinema of Italy. Wallflower Press. ISBN 9781903364987 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Schwarz, Barth David (2017). Pasolini Requiem (2 ed.). New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 9780226335025.
  4. ^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 11 March 2021.