Le streghe
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| Directed by | Mauro Bolognini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Franco Rossi |
| Produced by | Dino De Laurentiis |
| Written by | Age & Scarpelli, Mauro Bolognini, Luigi Magni, Bernardino Zapponi, Fabio Carpi, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Cesare Zavattini, Roberto Gianviti, Enzo Muzii |
| Starring | Silvana Mangano, Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Clint Eastwood, Alberto Sordi, Massimo Girotti |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone, Piero Piccioni |
| Cinematography | Giuseppe Rotunno |
| Edited by | Nino Baragli, Mario Serandrei |
| Distributed by | Productions Artistes Associés (Paris) |
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110 minutes ca. |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Le streghe (also known as Les Sorcières or The Witches) is a film produced by Dino De Laurentiis in 1965 and released in 1967. It consists of 5 short stories, directed by Luchino Visconti, Franco Rossi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mauro Bolognini and Vittorio De Sica. Each story is about witches and features Silvana Mangano.
This is one of De Laurentiis' more eclectic films. Clint Eastwood also makes an appearance in the final story.
A famous actress arrives in an Austrian chalet to spend an evening with friends. The woman is gotten drunk by the guests, and when she falls unconscious, friends remove her makeup to look at the imperfections of her face, always believed beautiful by her fans.
A man is wounded in a traffic accident. A woman stops the car and offers to take him to the hospital. The woman, however, only does this to pass the road traffic. When she arrives at her destination, she throws him out.
This comic episode, directed by Pasolini, tells the story of a red-headed father and son, Ciancicato and Baciu Miao (Totò and Ninetto Davoli). Ciancicato has just lost his wife and wants to marry a new wife. Ciancicato finds a deaf girl among the shacks on the outskirts of Rome and makes her his bride. To buy a better house nearby, he concocts a plan for her to threaten to commit suicide (distraught by her sick children) by jumping from the Coliseum, and take a collection to save her, but she slips on a banana peel and falls, and is buried next to his former wife.
In this short episode, a Sicilian woman tells her father a man made a pass at her; he retaliates by massacring the family.
Clint Eastwood is a western movie lover, who does not know how to change the flat relationship with his wife. One day Eastwood disguises himself as a gunslinger to entertain his wife, but she is not impressed, and he realizes that their relationship is broken forever. In the final scene, she imagines herself as a glamorous star, walking along in an evolving series of haute couture, whilst being ogled by a growing crowd of middle aged businessmen. She lastly dons a magnificent gown made of multiple layers of silk, each in a vibrant shade, which she peels away layer by layer.
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