San Michele aveva un gallo
Cinematography:
Mario MasiniComposer:
Benedetto GhigliaCast:
Giulio Brogi, Renato Cestiè, Renato Scarpa, Cinzia Bruno, Lorenzo Piani, Daniele Dublino, Vittorio Fanfoni, Sergio Serafini, Giuseppe ScarcellaPlots(1)
Set in the tumultuous period of 19th century Italy, St. Michael Had a Rooster tells the story of a romantic idealist and leader of a group of anarchists, Giulio Manieri (Giulio Brogi). Captured and condemned to death, Manieri firmly believes in his political convictions while in prison. After ten years, he meets a group of young revolutionaries who tell him the movement has changed and his beliefs are no longer valid. Feeling he has wasted ten years of his life, Manieri finds himself unable to function in the new outside world. (official distributor synopsis)
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What can a little boy who is locked in a room for misbehaving dream about? Giulio dreamed of a world without authority. When he, as an adult, symbolically walked out of the room, he immediately aimed his gun at the highest authority - the state. However, his fight kept something childish within it, an idea of a romantic rebellion that everyone will want to join sooner or later, and that a free world will be built tomorrow. And this world will applaud its liberator. With this belief, one can be free even in an empty cell, because imagination does not know any authority. The problem arises when returning to the real world (when Giulio walks out of the room for the second time, where he dream about himself and the future). That is because a person who has determined recognition from others as a condition for his own freedom cannot bear the fact that they will not live to see true recognition of their merits. His freedom slowly slips away... The major positive aspects of the film are the beautiful calm camera of Mario Masini and the performance of Giulio Brogi.
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