Fists in the Pocket [Criterion Collection]

Director: Marco Bellocchio Marco Bellocchio

Overview

Considered one of the great lost classics of Italian neo-realism, this bleak drama was the debut feature of filmmaker Marco Bellocchio. Lou Castel stars as Alessandro, an epileptic from a large family of similarly afflicted siblings, headed up by a blind matriarch (Liliana Gerace). The only healthy member of the family is Alessandro's brother Augusto (Marino Mase), who wants to marry his girlfriend but refuses to saddle a bride with the enormous burden of helping to care for his ailing relatives. Sympathetic to Augusto's plight, Alessandro decides to murder the rest of the family so as to set his brother free and assure him of an inheritance. After hurling his mother into a ravine and drowning his little brother, Alessandro returns home to suffer a seizure. Long hailed by critics and historians as an unjustly ignored film, I Pugni in Tasca (1965) was one of 15 titles selected by New York's Museum of Modern Art for its "Second Act" retrospective of post-war Italian cinema in the spring of 2000.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/25/2006
UPC:	0715515017626
Original Release:	1965
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:48:00
Sales rank:	31,178

Special Features

New, restored high-definition digital transfer; New video interviews with director Marco Bellocchio, actors Lou Castel and Paola Pitagora, editor Silvano Agosti, and critic Tullio Kezich; Video afterward by director Bernardo Bertolucci; Original theatrical trailer; New and improved English subtitle translation; Plus: a booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Deborah Young and an interview with Bellocchio

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Lou Castel	Alessandro
Paola Pitagora	Giulia
Marino Masé	Augusto
Liliana Gerace	Mother
Stefania Troglio	Chambermaid,Leone
Jeannie McNeil	Lucia
Mauro Martini	The Boy
Gianni Schicchi	Tonino
Alfredo Filippazzi	Doctor
Gianfranco Cella	Young Man at the Party
Celestina Bellocchio	Young Woman at the Party
Irene Agnelli	Bruna
Sandra Bergamini	Actor
Lella Bertante	Actor
Ennio Morricone	Composer

Technical Credits

Marco Bellocchio

Marco Bellocchio	Director,Screenwriter
Enzo Doria	Executive Producer
Ezio Passadore	Producer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Fists in the Pocket
1. Siblings [6:16]
2. Propriety [6:59]
3. Evaluation [6:08]
4. Headlines [2:53]
5. Desire [3:20]
6. Intentions [5:41]
7. Trust [4:46]
8. Stopped [8:45]
9. Condemned [1:49]
10. Control [9:28]
11. Ideas [10:28]
12. Disposal [7:19]
13. Red [2:39]
14. Birthday [8:19]
15. One [9:25]
16. Awakening [4:11]
17. Fine [10:12]
1. Family [4:36]
2. Problem [2:42]
3. Casting [7:46]
4. Performance [4:38]
5. Innovation [2:07]
6. Verdi [3:13]
7. Unexpected [7:50]

Menu

Disc #1 -- Fists in the Pocket
   Play the Movie
   Chapters
   Bars
   A Need for Change
      Play
      Index
   Afterword by Bernardo Bertolucci
      Play
   Trailer
   Subtitles
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