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Teorema

  • 19681968
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  • 1h 38m
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Terence Stamp and Silvana Mangano in Teorema (1968)
A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family. When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change?
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A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family. When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change?A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family. When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change?A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family. When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change?
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
14K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
9,099
586
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    • Director
      • Pier Paolo Pasolini
    • Writer
      • Pier Paolo Pasolini(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Silvana Mangano
      • Terence Stamp
      • Massimo Girotti
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Pier Paolo Pasolini
    • Writer
      • Pier Paolo Pasolini(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Silvana Mangano
      • Terence Stamp
      • Massimo Girotti
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 84User reviews
    • 79Critic reviews
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 5 nominations

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    Terence Stamp, Laura Betti, Andrés José Cruz Soublette, Massimo Girotti, Silvana Mangano, and Anne Wiazemsky in Teorema (1968)
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    Silvana Mangano
    Silvana Mangano
    • Lucia, the mother
    Terence Stamp
    Terence Stamp
    • The Visitor
    Massimo Girotti
    Massimo Girotti
    • Paolo, the father
    Anne Wiazemsky
    Anne Wiazemsky
    • Odetta, the daughter
    Laura Betti
    Laura Betti
    • Emilia, the servant
    Andrés José Cruz Soublette
    Andrés José Cruz Soublette
    • Pietro, the son
    Ninetto Davoli
    Ninetto Davoli
    • Angelino - the Messenger
    Carlo De Mejo
    Carlo De Mejo
    • Boy
    Adele Cambria
    Adele Cambria
    • Emilia - the second servant
    Luigi Barbini
    Luigi Barbini
    • Il ragazzo alla stazione
    Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia
    • Second boy
    • (as Ivan Scratuglia)
    Alfonso Gatto
    Alfonso Gatto
    • Doctor
    Cesare Garboli
    • Interviewer
    • (uncredited)
    Susanna Pasolini
    Susanna Pasolini
    • Old Peasant
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Pier Paolo Pasolini
    • Writer
      • Pier Paolo Pasolini(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      At the 1968 Venice Film Festival, the film was given an award by the International Catholic Film Office. The award was withdrawn after critical remarks by Pope Paul VI. After the festival the film was confiscated by Italian police and Pier Paolo Pasolini charged with obscenity, but acquitted.
    • Goofs
      Lucia (Silvana Mangano) sleeps with full makeup, thick mascara, and false eyelashes undisturbed.
    • Quotes

      Lucia, the mother: I realize now that I've never had any real interest in anything. I don't mean anything grand. Just the simple, everyday interest my husband takes in his work, or my son in his studies, or Odetta in family life. I've had nothing like that. I don't know how I lived with such emptiness, yet I did. If there was anything at all, some instinctive love of life, it has withering away - like a garden where no one ever goes. Actually, that void was filled with false and wretched values, an appalling jumble of misguided ideas. Now I see: You filled my life with a real and total interest. So by leaving, you're not destroying anything that was there before, except my chaste bourgeois reputation. Who cares about that?

    • Connections
      Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Seul le cinéma (1994)
    • Soundtracks
      Requiem
      KV 626

      Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Performed by Russian Academy Choir and Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Courtesy of MK Records

    User reviews84

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    9/10
    Teorema and Apartment Zero
    Watching Teorema for the first time in 2017 it gave me a chill by the influence this movie clearly had on "Apartment Zero" (1988) - A film I only discovered last year but it has become one of my favorites. I know "Apartment Zero" so well by now, that at times it felt (felt is the operative word)I was in their same universe. They are both socio-political psycho sexual tales. Terence Stamp and Hart Bochner even look related to each other. Colin Firth represents a Country in decadence with a past of elegant pride, Massimo Girotti represents, for me, exactly the same things for different reasons in different ways but they are both seduceable in the eyes of the stranger. To think that Teorema was made in 1968 and Apartment Zero in 1988, boggles the mind. Mine anyway.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 27, 1968 (West Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
    • Languages
      • Italian
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Theorem
    • Filming locations
      • 16 Via Palatino, Milan, Lombardia, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Aetos Produzioni Cinematografiche
      • B.R.C. Produzione S.r.l.
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 38 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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