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Pier Paolo Pasolini weaves together a handful of Giovanni Boccaccio’s fourteenth-century moral tales in this picturesque free-for-all. The Decameron explores the delectations and dark corners of an earlier and, as the filmmaker saw it, less compromised time. Among the chief delights are a young man’s exploits with a gang of grave robbers, a flock of randy nuns who sin with a strapping gardener, and Pasolini’s appearance as a pupil of the painter Giotto, at work on a massive fresco. One of the director’s most popular films, The Decameron, transposed to Naples from Boccaccio’s Florence, is a cutting takedown of the pieties surrounding religion and sex.
Original Release
08/25/1971
US Release
08/25/1971
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Franco Citti | Ciappelletto |
Ninetto Davoli | Andreuccio of Perugia |
Jovan Jovanovic | Rustico |
Vincenzo Amato | Masetto of Lamporecchio |
Angela Luce | Peronella |
Giuseppe Zigaina | Monk |
Maria Gabriella Maione | Una madonna |
Vincenzo Cristo | |
Giorgio Iovine | Lizio da Valbona |
Salvatore Bilardo |
Directors
Writers
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giovanni Boccaccio
Cast
Name | Character |
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Franco Citti | Ciappelletto |
Ninetto Davoli | Andreuccio of Perugia |
Jovan Jovanovic | Rustico |
Vincenzo Amato | Masetto of Lamporecchio |
Angela Luce | Peronella |
Giuseppe Zigaina | Monk |
Maria Gabriella Maione | Una madonna |
Vincenzo Cristo | |
Giorgio Iovine | Lizio da Valbona |
Salvatore Bilardo | |
Vincenzo Ferrigno | Giannello |
Luigi Seraponte | |
Antonio Diddio | |
Mirella Catanesi | |
Vincenzo De Luca | |
Erminio Nazzaro | |
Giovanni Filidoro | (as Giovanni Filadoro) |
Lino Crispo | Don Gianni |
Alfredo Sivoli | |
Guido Alberti | Musciatto, wealthy merchant |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Franco Rossellini | Executive Producer |
Alberto Grimaldi | Producer |