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Nel nome del padre

  • 19711971
  • 2h 35m
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6.6/10
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Nel nome del padre (1971)
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In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon Angel... Read allIn 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intel... Read allIn 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Gui... Read all
IMDb RATING
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    • Marco Bellocchio
    • Marco Bellocchio
  • Stars
    • Yves Beneyton
    • Renato Scarpa
    • Piero Vida
    • Marco Bellocchio
    • Marco Bellocchio
  • Stars
    • Yves Beneyton
    • Renato Scarpa
    • Piero Vida
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    Yves Beneyton in Nel nome del padre (1971)
    Yves Beneyton and Renato Scarpa in Nel nome del padre (1971)
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    Marco Bellocchio in Nel nome del padre (1971)
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    Yves Beneyton
    • Angelo Transeunti
    Renato Scarpa
    Renato Scarpa
    • Father Corazza
    Piero Vida
    Piero Vida
    • Bestia
    Aldo Sassi
    • Franco
    Laura Betti
    Laura Betti
    • Franco's Mother
    Marco Romizi
    • Camma
    Amerigo Alberani
    • Prefect Diotaiuti
    • (as Ghigo Alberani)
    Gérard Boucaron
    Gérard Boucaron
    • Bocciofili
    Edoardo Torricella
    • Father Matematicus
    Tino Maestroni
    • Tino
    Gisella Burinato
    • Lisetta
    Luisa Di Gaetano
    • Virgin of Our Relief
    Claudio Besestri
    • Muscolo
    Livio Galassi
    • Marsilio
    Orazio Stracuzzi
    Orazio Stracuzzi
    • Remondini
    Christian Aligny
    • The Rector
    Gianni Schicchi
    • Ghiacio - a Servant
    Guerrino Crivello
    • Beato - a Servant
      • Marco Bellocchio
      • Marco Bellocchio
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    • Trivia
      Italian censorship visa # 59909 delivered on 9-3-1972.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Cinema Machine: Periferie (1978)

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    7/10
    Not my favorite of Bellocchio's work, but well worth seeing if you like him
    Bellocchio's variation on "If…", is even more surreal and bleak than Lindsay Anderson's vision of a boy's school as a metaphor for larger society. Here it's a school of spoiled rich out of control kids stashed away by their families (fathers mostly) in a school run by dark hearted priests. It's hard to tell which group is worse, as both tussle for control of the school and each other.

    Beautifully shot (as are all Bellocchio's films). The film has the Church clearly starting to lose it's corrupted influence, but it's not like we have much to be cheery about in the thought of these rich young thugs running the world either.

    The surprising thing is how much of this is quite funny. The themes may be depressing, but the individual characters and their actions are often darkly comic (sometimes too much for me, one boy's voice has been dubbed with something that sounds like Mel Blanc created it for a cartoon. Amusing at first, then grating).

    Some will hate this – it is repetitive and grim and adolescent. But then, the young Bellocchio might argue, so is the world and those who run it.
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    • Mar 17, 2012

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      • November 8, 1973 (Denmark)
      • Italy
      • Italian
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      • Bobbio, Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
    • Production company
      • Vides Cinematografica
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    • 2 hours 35 minutes
      • Mono

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