Fists in the Pocket

Fists in the Pocket
DVD cover
ItalianI pugni in tasca
Directed byMarco Bellocchio
Written byMarco Bellocchio
Produced byEnzo Doria
StarringLou Castel
Paola Pitagora
Marino Masé
Liliana Gerace
CinematographyAlberto Marrama
Edited bySilvano Agosti
(as Aurelio Mangiarotti)
Music byEnnio Morricone
Production
company
Doria Cinematografica
Distributed byInternational Film Company (1965)
Release date
  • October 1965 (1965-10) (Italy)[1]
Running time
109 minutes[a]
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
Budget20–24 million lire[4]

Fists in the Pocket (Italian: I pugni in tasca) is a 1965 Italian satirical[5][6] drama film written and directed by Marco Bellocchio and starring Lou Castel. It was Bellocchio's first feature film and became one of the most critically acclaimed films of the year.[7][8][9] The film centers on a young man suffering from epilepsy, who plots the murders of the members of his dysfunctional family.[10][11]

In 2008, Fists in the Pocket was included in 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."[12]

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  2. ^ "I pugni in tasca". DVD Beaver. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  3. ^ Fists in the Pocket (Blu-ray). The Criterion Collection. 2019.
  4. ^ "I pugni in tasca: La storia del film". Cineteca di Bologna (in Italian). Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  5. ^ Kehr, Dave (25 February 1986). "Fists in the Pocket". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  6. ^ "I pugni in tasca – Fists in the Pocket". Fondazione Prada. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  7. ^ Brook, Clodagh J. (2010). Marco Bellocchio: The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere. University of Toronto Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0802097101.
  8. ^ Forshaw, Barry (2017). Italian Cinema. Kamera Books. ISBN 9781843449102.
  9. ^ Young, Deborah (24 April 2006). "Fists in the Pocket: Ripped to Shreds". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
  10. ^ Thomson, David (2008). "Have You Seen . . . ?" A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films. Knopf. p. 292. ISBN 978-0307264619.
  11. ^ Liehm, Mira (1986). Passion and Defiance: Film in Italy from 1942 to the Present. University of California Press. pp. 189–190. ISBN 978-0520057449.
  12. ^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 11 March 2021.


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