Ugly, Dirty and Bad
(1976)
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Ugly, Dirty and Bad
(1976)
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Nino Manfredi | ... |
Giacinto Mazzatella
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Maria Luisa Santella | ... |
Iside
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Francesco Anniballi | ... |
Domizio
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Maria Bosco | ... |
Gaetana
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Giselda Castrini | ... |
Lisetta
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Alfredo D'Ippolito | ... |
Plinio
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Giancarlo Fanelli | ... |
Paride
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Marina Fasoli | ... |
Maria Libera
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Ettore Garofolo | ... |
Camillo
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Marco Marsili | ... |
Marce
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Franco Merli | ... | |
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Linda Moretti | ... |
Matilde
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Luciano Pagliuca | ... |
Romolo
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Giuseppe Paravati | ... |
Tato
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Silvana Priori | ... |
Paride's Wife
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Four generations of a family live crowded together in a cardboard shantytown shack in the squalor of inner-city Rome. They plan to murder each other with poisoned dinners, arson, etc. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery. Written by Rick Fleming <rmf8a@virginia.edu>
After all these years I still come back to this movie, enjoying a true art. Although it shows the so-called-life of the people from the bottom, it's still a beautiful portrait of the human race in its essence: we are truly ugly, dirty and evil inside, behind all those masks we wear. This is "human" deprived of all the "civilization". The movie itself is a masterpiece. All those shots, casting, directing, music, dialogs, scenes that make you cry and laugh and disgust you simultaneously, all led by the master Scola. One should not review any movie without previously watching this one. This is what any movie should be: a picture of life. Sometimes funny, but mostly loathsome. And we're all just animals inside, just give us a chance to show it. Highly recommended as "a must".