
In Sicily, mine worker Carmelo "Mimí" Mardocheo votes in the Communist Party candidate instead of in the Mafia's one believing that the suffrage is secret. After the elections, he loses his job and cannot find another in his village that is controlled by the mobster Don Calogero. He leaves his wife Rosalia with his family and travels to Turin expecting to find a job. He finds an illegal position in the civil construction that is also explored by the Mafia, and when a coworke... (Full plot summary below)
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In Sicily, mine worker Carmelo "Mimí" Mardocheo votes in the Communist Party candidate instead of in the Mafia's one believing that the suffrage is secret. After the elections, he loses his job and cannot find another in his village that is controlled by the mobster Don Calogero. He leaves his wife Rosalia with his family and travels to Turin expecting to find a job. He finds an illegal position in the civil construction that is also explored by the Mafia, and when a coworker dies in an accident, he finds that the mobsters have dumped his body on the road. However, he does not report the crime to the police and lies to mobster Salvatore Tricarico telling that he belongs to the family of a powerful mobster. Mimi gets a metallurgic position and joins the Communist Party. Then he fall in love with virgin Trotskyite street vendor Fiorella Meneghini and they have a son. When Mimi witnesses mobster Vico Tricarico executing several men in a hotel, he survives but he does not report to the police. Mimi is transferred to Catania in a supervisory position against his will. He brings Fiore and their son to Sicily, but he is still married to Rosalia; claiming to be ill, he doesn't have sex with her. When he learns that she's pregnant, he find that he is a cuckold and plots to seduce and impregnate Amalia Finocchiaro--the wife of Rosalia's lover. But his revenge does not work as planned.
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| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeA good starting point for a reassessment of a filmmaker worth another look. |
| User ReviewJoes Cone of those films that feels like you watched 3 films in 1 setting . picaresque tale of a horny man. a man horny for the truth!! down with facism (this time in form of gangstas), up with woman's lib, A Classico! |
| User ReviewKa Kone of those films that feels like you watched 3 films in 1 setting . picaresque tale of a horny man. a man horny for the truth!! down with facism (this time in form of gangstas), up with woman's lib, A Classico! |
| User ReviewTony RAbout 90% of the shots in this film are just unbelievable. Giannini and Melato are, as usual, two of the most interesting looking people ever filmed. Another Wertmuller classic - hilarious, baffling, sweet, and utterly hopeless. |
| User ReviewJason 123 DVibrant use of colors, framing, background, and politics influence how we as an audience feels about every character in the film before we even get to know them. This amount of control over the audience is a drastic and well-accomplished feat that modern directors struggle with from project to project. |
| User ReviewStefanie CExtremely ridiculous and highly immoral, but very funny. |
| User ReviewDamon SGiancarlo Giannini wasn't so hot in this one. He has you-know-what with a FAAAAAAAT girl. not hot |