Writing
22 April 1964: on the eve of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth, Vittorio Gassman presented a television recital featuring some of the most famous monologues from the English playwright’s works, introducing them himself with a brief commentary against the backdrop of a bare, minimalist set.
Antonio Barracano is an old Camorra member who administers justice according to his own unique criteria. Magnanimous and tough, severe and affectionate, he is recognized as the 'mayor' by all the dispossessed of the SanitĂ district. His particular brand of justice towards the poor leads him to sacrifice his own life in order to solve the financial problems of Rafiluccio and Rita, a couple expecting a child and overwhelmed by debt.
A door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman finds himself caught up in a surreal misdeed, which takes place inside a cottage where the man has gone to introduce the product to a potential customer.
Video containing a fragment of the journalistic reportage "Roma 4 - Passeggiate per la cittĂ " (1967) by Bernardino Zapponi and Stefano De Stefani, where attention is directed to CinecittĂ and in particular to the sets where, in that period, numerous scenes were shot of Italian western films, the so-called "spaghetti westerns".
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