My Name Is Rocco Papaleo

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My Name Is Rocco Papaleo
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Directed by Ettore Scola
Written byPeter Goldfarb
Ruggero Maccari
Ettore Scola
Starring Marcello Mastroianni
CinematographyClaudio Cirillo
Release date
  • 1971 (1971)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

My Name Is Rocco Papaleo (Italian : Permette? Rocco Papaleo) is a 1971 Italian film directed by Ettore Scola.

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Description

The film follows a former boxer from Sicily (Mastroianni) who emigrates to the United States, but rather than success he finds only poverty and loneliness. [1] The film was shot partly in Chicago, [2] and was made while Scola was doing post-production for Trevico-Turin: Voyage in Fiatnam , [1] another "politically engaged" film. [3] It was called "a harsh attack on American consumer values and their soul-destroying materialism". [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Guaraldo, Emiliano; Colleoni, Federica (2020). "Trevico-Torino: Viaggio nel Fiat-Nam: Metamorphoses of Urban Space and the Multiplication of the Factory in the Age of the Anthropocene". In Lanzoni, Rémi; Bowen, Edward (eds.). The Cinema of Ettore Scola. Wayne State University Press. p. 194. ISBN   9780814343807.
  2. 1 2 Suresha, Ron (2002). Bears on Bears: Interviews and Discussions. Lethe. p. 129. ISBN   9781590212448.
  3. ↑ Moliterno, Gino (2009). "Scola, Ettore". The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow. pp. 294-. ISBN   9780810870598.
  4. ↑ Marrone, Gaetana; Puppa, Paolo, eds. (2006). "Ettore Scola (1931-)". Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Routledge. pp. 1721-. ISBN   9781135455293.


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