ACCATTONE (1961) Italian quattro foglio poster, style E

Rome: Cino Del Duca Film, 1961. Vintage original 55 x 78″ (140 x 200 cm) Italian four panel poster, style E. Artwork by Anna Salvatore. On linen, a long tear in area of the woman’s hair and a small hole in white background at bottom right were skilfully conserved. Poster was overall in really nice condition to begin with. Overall near fine or better.

Director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s first feature film. Franco Citti, a non-actor who was working as a day laborer at the time, was cast because Pasolini appreciated his distinctly Roman features. In the neorealist tradition, the vast majority of the cast were also non-professional actors for whom this was their first and/or only film role. One of the few professional actors was Adriana Asti, who played a prostitute and later became a Pasolini regular. It follows the life of Vittorio “Accattone” Cataldi, a pimp living on the outskirts of Rome.

The film premiered at the 22nd Venice International Film Festival, where it met with controversy over its provocative content and was later withdrawn from general release over censorship, drawing condemnation from Pasolini and others. It was nonetheless critically acclaimed and remains one of the late classics of the Italian neorealist tradition. (Wikipedia)