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Saint Michael Had a Rooster. After Italian aristocrat Giulio Manieri (Giulio Brogi) gives up his privileged life to join the anarchist movement in starting a political revolution, he's captured by ...
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8/10. A Timely Motion Picture. EdgarST 26 November 2016. One of the Taviani brothers' less widespread works, a free adaptation of Lev Tolstoy's tale «Divine and Human», this film runs rather smoothly for 90 minutes, considering the leading character's frequent spells of verbose rhetoric, a 19th century Italian anarchist who fancies a new ...
Feb 9, 1976 · St. Michael Had a Rooster: Directed by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani. With Giulio Brogi, Daniele Dublino, Renato Cestiè, Vito Cipolla. Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his prison cell.
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- Drama, History
- Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
- 1976-02-09
Release date. 1972. ( 1972) Country. Italy. Language. Italian. St. Michael Had a Rooster ( Italian: San Michele aveva un gallo) is a 1972 Italian drama film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. It is an adaptation of Tolstoy 's novel The Divine and the Human.
Review by Mike Kennedy ★★★★ ***Spoilers throughout the text to discuss the Tolstoy story on which the film was based, and the endings*** After seeing A Man For Burning last week, which Paolo and Vittorio Taviani had written and directed a decade earlier, I was expecting a serious political movie as last night’s second film, but got ...
Mar 6, 2024 · I was pleasantly surprised at another Taviani portrait of a complex, defeated leftist, following on from last weeks A Man For Burning. Didn’t expect it to turn into leftist infighting Aguirre on the Venetian lagoon for its last half; but damn was that the most beautiful part of the film!
