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The Seed of Man

Original title: Il seme dell'uomo
  • 1969
  • 1h 53m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
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The Seed of Man (1969)
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A young couple argue about having a child in the days after a global plague wipes out most of Earth's population.A young couple argue about having a child in the days after a global plague wipes out most of Earth's population.A young couple argue about having a child in the days after a global plague wipes out most of Earth's population.

  • Director
    • Marco Ferreri
  • Writers
    • Marco Ferreri
    • Sergio Bazzini
  • Stars
    • Anne Wiazemsky
    • Marzio Margine
    • Rada Rassimov
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.6/10
    524
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Marco Ferreri
    • Writers
      • Marco Ferreri
      • Sergio Bazzini
    • Stars
      • Anne Wiazemsky
      • Marzio Margine
      • Rada Rassimov
    • 3User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Anne Wiazemsky
    Anne Wiazemsky
    • Dora
    Marzio Margine
    • Cino
    • (as Marco Margine)
    Rada Rassimov
    Rada Rassimov
    • Blonde girl from Major De Votis's squad
    Maria Teresa Piaggio
    • Priest
    Milvia Deanna Frosini
    • Armed girl from Major De Votis's squad
    • (as Milvia Frosini)
    Angela Pagano
    Annie Girardot
    Annie Girardot
    • The Foreigner Woman
    Adriano Aprà
    • TV Journalist
    • (uncredited)
    Vittorio Armentano
      Mario Bagnato
        Gioia Benelli
        • TV announcer
        • (uncredited)
        Marco Ferreri
        Marco Ferreri
        • Beach House Owner
        • (uncredited)
        Sergio Giussani
          Luciano Odorisio
            Mario Vulpiani
            • Major Vulpiani
            • (uncredited)
            • Director
              • Marco Ferreri
            • Writers
              • Marco Ferreri
              • Sergio Bazzini
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            • Trivia
              The surreal symbolic red gun with the bright spots on it can also be seen in other Marco Ferreri films, Dillinger Is Dead (1969) and Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974).
            • Goofs
              When Cino and Dora stumble upon the beach house, director Ferreri doubles as the deceased owner, lying in his porch chair dead. The scene is in long shot and the supposedly dead Ferreri's head can be seen to move slightly as he gives actor Marco Margine a piece of direction.
            • Quotes

              Cino: You know the world. You're a very experienced woman. So is it right to want a child?

              The Foreigner Woman: Not only is it right. It is a duty.

            • Connections
              Referenced in Sois belle et tais-toi! (1981)

            User reviews3

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            6/10
            Interesting parable
            I got led to this by "Godard Mon Amour," in which a divide between the dramatized Godard and Anne W. is heightened by her accepting the lead in this film after Ferrari agrees that she won't have to appear nude at all, let alone throughout. (Neither lead does, so either that was an invention of "Mon Amour," or Ferreri radically changed his concept before filming.) Anyway, it's an interesting, rather typical European arthouse experiment of the counterculture era. The leads are a modern Adam & Eve left alone in a well-supplied beach house after they survive a murky apocalyptic incident that apparently kills off most of mankind. (They seem to have survived by driving through a long tunnel when "it" hit.)

            But this Eve doesn't want to re-populate the Earth by giving birth in such a bleak environment. The only thing that "happens" after the start is the eventual arrival of Annie Girardot as an older woman a little too eager to fill the sexuality/pregnancy gap with our virile young hero, and whose competitiveness towards the heroine leads toward the movie's one violent act.

            "The Seed of Man," which I could only find in Italian without English subtitles (I understand some Italian, but this isn't a movie where the dialogue is terribly important), is typical of many Ferreri films: Striking in concept, middling in execution. It's lively enough considering that not much "happens," and the leads are agreeable, but there are too many scenes of them simply gamboling about, and the bemused, leisurely tenor isn't close enough to either satire or tragedy for the overall sociopolitical commentary to have any great impact. Still, it's a quirky movie from an always-interesting (at least in theory if not always practice) filmmaker, and if like me you get a kick out of such late 60s/early 70s projects that no one in their right mind would have funded at any other moment in time, "Seed" is certainly worth a look.
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            • Release date
              • September 27, 1969 (Italy)
            • Country of origin
              • Italy
            • Language
              • Italian
            • Also known as
              • El semen del hombre
            • Filming locations
              • Capalbio, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy
            • Production company
              • Polifilm
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            • Runtime
              1 hour 53 minutes
            • Sound mix
              • Mono
            • Aspect ratio
              • 1.66 : 1

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