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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