Search - Accattone: The Scrounger on DVD

MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Not For Children Movie Release: 1961 DVD Release: 07/22/2003 Format: DVD - Black and White,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: Italian Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 56 mins Studio: Water Bearer Films Members Wishing: 5 Genres: Drama, Psychological Drama, Urban Drama

Accattone , Pier Paolo Pasolini's first feature, is also his first semidocumentary study of "the little homelands": the small, often squalid cultural pockets in the remotest provinces of Italy. Using nonprofessional actors for his leading characters, Pasolini concentrates on Franco Citti, a rural pimp who falls in love with virtuous Franca Pasut. Having previously led an aimless existence, Citti takes a job-and, it is implied, a bath--in hopes of impressing his new girl. It isn't long, however, before Citti gives up both job and Pasut, degenerating into a life of violent crime. As was the case with most of his subsequent films, Pasolini both directed and wrote Accattone, adapting the screenplay from his own novel ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Franco Citti - Vittorio Accattone
Silvana Corsini - Maddalena
Franca Pasut - Stella
Paolo Guidi - Ascenza
Adele Cambria - Nannina