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Love & Anarchy

Original title: Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero 'stamattina alle 10 in via dei Fiori nella nota casa di tolleranza...'
  • 19731973
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  • 2h
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7.7/10
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Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato in Love & Anarchy (1973)
When a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.
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When a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.When a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.When a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.
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    • Lina Wertmüller
    • Lina Wertmüller
  • Stars
    • Giancarlo Giannini
    • Mariangela Melato
    • Lina Polito
    • Lina Wertmüller
    • Lina Wertmüller
  • Stars
    • Giancarlo Giannini
    • Mariangela Melato
    • Lina Polito
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    • 14User reviews
    • 24Critic reviews
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    Giancarlo Giannini and Lina Polito in Love & Anarchy (1973)
    Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato in Love & Anarchy (1973)
    Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato in Love & Anarchy (1973)
    Lina Polito in Love & Anarchy (1973)
    Lina Polito in Love & Anarchy (1973)
    Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Eros Pagni, and Lina Polito in Love & Anarchy (1973)
    Giancarlo Giannini in Love & Anarchy (1973)
    Lina Polito in Love & Anarchy (1973)
    Lina Polito in Love & Anarchy (1973)
    Lina Polito in Love & Anarchy (1973)
    Giancarlo Giannini and Lina Polito in Love & Anarchy (1973)
    Giancarlo Giannini and Lina Polito in Love & Anarchy (1973)

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    Giancarlo Giannini
    Giancarlo Giannini
    • Antonio Soffiantini 'Tunin'
    Mariangela Melato
    Mariangela Melato
    • Salomè
    Lina Polito
    • Tripolina
    Eros Pagni
    • Giacinto Spatoletti
    Pina Cei
    • Madame Aïda
    Elena Fiore
    Elena Fiore
    • Donna Carmela
    Giuliana Calandra
    Giuliana Calandra
    Isa Bellini
    Isa Danieli
    Isa Danieli
    • Prostitute
    Enrica Bonaccorti
    Enrica Bonaccorti
    • Prostitute
    Anna Bonaiuto
    Anna Bonaiuto
    • Prostitute
    Anita Branzanti
    • Prostitute
    Maria Sciacca
    • Prostitute
    Anna Melato
    • Prostitute
    Gea Linchi
    • Prostitute
    Anna Stivala
    • Prostitute
    Josiane Tanzilli
    Josiane Tanzilli
    • Prostitute
    Valeria Piaggio
    • Prostitute
      • Lina Wertmüller
      • Lina Wertmüller
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    • Trivia
      Errico Malatesta, who is quoted at the end of the film, was an Italian anarchist propagandist and revolutionary socialist. He edited several radical newspapers and spent much of his life exiled and imprisoned, having been jailed and expelled from Italy, England, France, and Switzerland. After World War I, he returned to Italy where his Umanità Nova, an anarchist newspaper, had some popularity before its closure under the rise of Mussolini. Malatesta was a committed revolutionary. He believed that the anarchist revolution was inevitable and that violence would be a necessary part of it since the state rested ultimately on violent coercion.
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      Salome: In my opinion, I can't stand these people that are so intelligent yet create such a shitty world.

    • Crazy credits
      Before end credits: "I wish to repeat my horror that attacks, which besides being bad in and of themselves are also stupid, because they harm the very cause they are trying to serve...But those assassins are also saints and heroes...And they will be celebrated once the brutal facts are forgotten, and all that is remembered is the idea that inspired them and the martyrdom that made them saints.--Errico Malatesta."
    • Alternate versions
      For the initial American release, editor Fima Noveck created a prologue which featured a montage of photos of Mussolini, along with a crawl explaining his rise to power and the violent activities sanctioned in his name during his reign.
    • Connections
      Featured in Behind the White Glasses (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      Canzone arrabbiata
      Written by Nino Rota and Lina Wertmüller
      Performed by Anna Melato

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    Wertmuller: Modern Film Genius - Love and Anarchy
    Lina Wertmuller was the natural successor to Fellini and one of the greatest directors of all time. She displays her mastery here in one of her gems Love and Anarchy. Giancarlo Giannini is the successor to Marcello Mastroianni, and Melato is a worthy successor to Loren. It is amazing how Italian cinema is a lot like the Yankees; They went from Ruth to Gehrig without blinking on then on to Dimaggio and Mantle the same way. So it is with Italian cinema. From Wertmuller, Giannini and Melato, Italian filmmaking moved seamlessly into the Tornatore period with his masterpiece Cinema Paradiso. Love and Anarchy is a bit raw, but that was what life was like precisely in Mussolini's Italy before his downfall. A great film.
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      • February 22, 1973 (Italy)
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      • Rome, Lazio, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Euro International Films
      • Labrador Films
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    • 2 hours
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