Writers:Luigi Bazzoni (writer)
Mauro Bolognini (writer)
Original Music by Ennio Morricone
Release Date:24 April 1971 (Japan) more
Genre:Drama more
Plot:Metello struggles to escape from the poverty that led to the premature death of his parents, and that... more | add synopsis
Plot Keywords:Based On Novel
Awards:6 wins & 1 nomination more
Cast
Massimo Ranieri ... Metello
Ottavia Piccolo ... Ersilia
Frank Wolff ... Betto
Tina Aumont ... Idina
Lucia Bosé ... Viola
Pino Colizzi ... Renzoli
Mariano Rigillo ... Olindo
Luigi Diberti ... Lippi
Manuela Andrei ... Adele Salani
Corrado Gaipa ... Badolati
Adolfo Geri ... Del Bueno
Claudio Biava ... Moretti
Franco Balducci ... Chellini
Steffen Zacharias ... Pallesi
Sergio Ciulli more
Metello struggles to escape from the poverty that led to the premature death of his parents, and that is the lot of the working class in northern Italy during the second half of the 19th century. Metello fights his way out from his condition through hard work, a determined will to resist oppression inherited from his father, but also by taking advantage of his good looks when dealing with women. Metello progressively assumes an important role in the organization of an emerging workers movement, and attempts to conciliate his risky political activities with his private life. Written by Eduardo Casais {eduardo.casais@research.nokia.com} (Here)
02-From FANDANGO
Metello (Messimo Ranieri) is the son of an anarchist who shares his father's passion for justice. After he is introduced to love by the young widow Viola (Lucia Bose), he falls in love and marries Ersilia (Ottavia Piccolo). Labor unrest leads to a strike by workers, and Metello is thrown in jail. Upon his release, he lies to officials when he says he will abandon political causes. He tries to balance his family life and remain true to his ideals in the changing political climate in Florence at the turn of the 20th century. Ennio Morricone provides the music for this feature that appeared at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide(here)
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Metello (1970)
initiated by prakash on September 16, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066075/)
Mauro Bolognini's most critically acclaimed film is far from his best. A tale of a 'working class hero' in turn-of-the-century Florence, it seems fundamentally unsuited to this director's world view. Most of Bolognini's films take place in an aesthetic and rather camp universe ruled by powerful and glamorous women (Claudia Cardinale in La Viaccia, Gina Lollobrigida in Un Bellissimo Novembre, Dominique Sanda in The Inheritance) who hold effortless sway over effete and malleable men.Yet this film of Vasco Pratolini's novel was Bolognini's pet project for nearly a decade. If he had managed to cast Albert Finney (as he hoped to do in 1963) the character and his story might have a shade more conviction. But pretty-boy pop star Massimo Ranieri barely seems capable of reading his lines off a cue card, never mind digesting huge chunks of Das Kapital. Faced with the inadequacy of his male lead, Bolognini does what he has always done - and lets the women rule the film.The least interesting woman, by far, is Metello's saintly wife Ersilia (Ottavia Piccolo). A salt-of-the-earth proletarian Madonna figure, she keeps her husband in line largely by boring him (and the audience) into a state of submission. Piccolo is an actress of minimal charisma, and her Best Actress award from the 1970 Cannes Film Festival has to be one of life's great mysteries. Far more amusing is Tina Aumont as Idina - the couple's frivolous and flirtatious neighbour. We wait for the inevitable to happen, and of course...Early on in the film, Metello has a fling with Viola - a sensual middle-aged school teacher played by Lucia Bose. As usual, Bose is stunning but has far too little to do. One of the screen's great wasted natural resources, Bose has the magnetism of a Garbo - but she also has a maddening tendency to retire for decades at a time. Given roles as limited as this one, who can really blame her?As always in a Bolognini film, the visuals in Metello are flawless. The camerawork by Ennio Guarnieri evokes old photographs of the period. The sets and costumes (supervised by Piero Tosi) are almost eerie in their perfection. Midway through, the cast enjoy a night out at a music hall and the film springs to life - as Bolognini finally gets a chance for a bit of flamboyance, which is what he does best. Sorry, but I can't get excited about Metello. Its appeal, I suspect, is largely to those who do not enjoy Bolognini's other and better work. Still, it's one of his easier films to come by. Fans of arty Italian cinema must take our pleasure where we can get it!(here)
03-About the auther of the novel "Metello"--Vasco Pratolini and "Metello"
Italian short-story writer and novelist, known particularly for compassionate portraits of the Florentine poor during the Fascist era. He is considered a major figure in Italian Neorealism.
Pratolini was reared in Florence, the setting of nearly all his fiction, in a poor family. He held various jobs until his health failed. His illness forced his confinement in a sanatorium from 1935 to 1937. He had no formal education but was an incessant reader, and during his confinement he began to write.
Pratolini went to Rome, where he met the novelist Elio Vittorini, who introduced him into literary circles and became a close friend. Like Vittorini, Pratolini rejected fascism; the Fascist government shut down Pratolini’s literary magazine, Campo di Marte, within nine months of its founding in 1939.
His first important novel, Il quartiere (1944; The Naked Streets), offers a vivid, exciting portrait of a gang of Florentine adolescents. Cronaca familiare (1947; Two Brothers) is a tender story of Pratolini’s dead brother. Cronache di poveri amanti (1947; A Tale of Poor Lovers), which has been called one of the finest works of Italian Neorealism, became an immediate best-seller and won two international literary prizes. The novel gives a panoramic view of the Florentine poor at the time of the Fascist triumph in 1925–26. Un eroe del nostro tempo (1949; A Hero of Today, or, A Hero of Our Time) attacks fascism.
Between 1955 and 1966 Pratolini published three novels under the general title Una storia italiana (“An Italian Story”), covering the period from 1875 to 1945. The first, Metello (1955), considered the finest of the three, follows its working-class hero through the labour disputes after 1875 and climaxes with a successful building masons’ strike in 1902. The second, Lo scialo (1960; “The Waste”), depicts the lassitude of the lower classes between 1902 and the mid-1920s preparatory to the Fascist takeover. The final volume, Allegoria e derisione (1966; “Allegory and Derision”), deals with the triumph and fall of Fascism, focusing on the moral and intellectual conflicts of the Florentine intelligentsia.(here)
(WIKI)Vasco Pratolini (October 19, 1913 - January 12, 1991) was one of the most noted Italian writers of the twentieth century.
Born in Florence, Pratolini worked at various jobs before entering the literary world thanks to his acquaintance with Elio Vittorini. In 1938 he founded, together with Alfonso Gatto, the magazine Campo di Marte. His work is based on firm political principles and much of it is rooted in the ordinary life and sentiments of ordinary, modest working-class people in Florence.
During World War II he fought with the Italian partisans against the German occupation. After the war he also worked in the cinema, collaborating as screenwriter to films such as Luchino Visconti's Rocco e i suoi fratelli , Roberto Rossellini's Paisà and Nanni Loy's Le quattro giornate di Napoli. In 1954 and 1961 Valerio Zurlini turned two of his novels, Le ragazze di San Frediano and Cronaca familiare, into films.
His most important literary works are the novels Cronaca familiare (1947), Cronache di poveri amanti (1947) and Metello (1955).
He died in Rome in 1991.
Works
Il tappeto verde (1941)
Via de' magazzini (1941)
Le amiche (1943)
Il quartiere (1943)
Cronaca familiare (1947)
Cronache di poveri amanti (1947)
Diario sentimentale (1947)
Un eroe del nostro tempo (1947)
Le ragazze di San Frediano (1949)
La domenica della povera gente (1952)
Lungo viaggio di Natale (1954)
Metello ( 1955)
Lo scialo (1960)
La costanza della ragione (1963)
Allegoria e derisione (1966)
La mia città ha trent'anni (1967)
Il mantello di Natascia (1985)
Viaccia, La (1961) (writer)
... aka Mauvais chemin, Le (France)
... aka The Lovemakers (USA: reissue title)
Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960) (scenario)
... aka Rocco and His Brothers (UK) (USA)
... aka Rocco et ses fr鑢es (France)
... aka Rocco et ses freres (France: DVD title)
Momento pi? bello, Il (1957) (story)
... aka Moment le plus beau, Le (France)
... aka The Most Wonderful Moment
... aka Wasted Lives (USA: reissue title)
Tempi nostri (1954) (story "Mara")
... aka A Slice of Life (UK)
... aka Quelques pas dans la vie (France)
... aka The Anatomy of Love (USA)
... aka Zibaldone N. 2 (Italy: alternative title)
Cronache di poveri amanti (1954) (novel "Cronache di poveri amanti")
... aka Chronicle of Poor Lovers (USA)
Terza liceo (1954) (writer)
... aka High School (USA)
A former architectural student, Bolognini began his film career as an assistant to director Luigi Zampa in Italy, and directors Yves Allegret and Jean Delannoy in France. He began directing his own feature films in the mid 1950s, and had his first international success with Gli innamorati ("Wild Love").
Parting professionally with Pasolini in 1961, Bolognini went on to direct two sensual love stories starring Cardinale, La Viaccia and Senilit脿, before turning his talents to a series of international anthology films, including Le bambole (The Dolls), I tre volti ("Three Faces of a Woman"), Le fate ("The Queens") and Le streghe (The Witches).
"Certosa di Parma, La" (1981) TV mini-series
... aka Chartreuse de Parme, La (France)
... aka Kartause von Parma, Die (West Germany)
... aka The Charterhouse of Parma (USA)
Storia vera della signora dalle camelie, La (1981)
... aka Dame aux cam閘ias, La (France)
... aka Kameliendame, Die (West Germany)
... aka Lady of the Camelias (International: English title)
... aka The True Story of Camille
Dove vai in vacanza? (1978) (segment "Sar?tutta per te")
... aka Where Are You Going on Holiday? (USA)
Gran bollito (1977)
... aka Black Journal
... aka Signora degli orrori, La
Per le antiche scale (1975)
... aka Down the Ancient Staircase
... aka Down the Ancient Stairs
... aka En descendant les marches d'antan (France: festival title)
... aka Vertiges (France)
Fatti di gente perbene (1974)
... aka Drama of the Rich
... aka Grande Bourgeoise, La
... aka The Murri Affair
Capriccio all'italiana (1968) (segments "Perch?" and "Gelosia, La")
... aka Caprice Italian Style
Arabella (1967)
... aka Ragazza del Charleston (Italy)
Plus vieux m閠ier du monde, Le (1967) (segment "Nuits romaines")
... aka 膌teste Gewerbe der Welt, Das (West Germany)
... aka Amore attraverso i secoli, L' (Italy)
... aka Amour ?travers les 鈍es, L'
... aka Love Through the Centuries
... aka The Oldest Profession (USA)
... aka The Oldest Profession in the World
Streghe, Le (1967) (segment "Senso civico")
... aka Sorci鵵es, Les (France)
... aka The Witches (USA)
Madamigella di Maupin (1966)
... aka Chevalier de Maupin, Le (France: alternative title)
... aka Mademoiselle de Maupin (France)
Fate, Le (1966) (segment "Fata Elena")
... aka Ogresses, Les (France)
... aka Sex Quartet (UK)
... aka The Queens (USA)
Tre volti, I (1965) (segment "Gli amanti celebri")
... aka The Three Faces
... aka Three Faces of a Woman
Bambole, Le (1965) (segment "Monsignor Cupido")
... aka Four Kinds of Love (UK)
... aka Poup閑s, Les (France)
... aka The Doll that Took the Town (USA: DVD box title)
... aka The Dolls (USA)
Donna ?una cosa meravigliosa, La (1964) (segments "Una donna dolce, dolce" and "La balena bianca")
... aka Woman Is a Wonderful Thing (International: English title)
Mia signora, La (1964) (segments "I miei cari", "Luciana")
... aka My Wife (International: English title)
Corruzione, La (1963)
... aka Corruption
... aka Corruption, La (France: poster title)
Agostino (1962)
... aka Perdita dell'innocenza, La (Italy: subtitle)
Viaccia, La (1961)
... aka Mauvais chemin, Le (France)
... aka The Lovemakers (USA: reissue title)
Giornata balorda, La (1961)
... aka 閍 s'est pass??Rome (France)
... aka A Crazy Day
... aka From a Roman Balcony (USA)
... aka Love Is a Day's Work
... aka Pickup in Rome
Bell'Antonio, Il (1960)
... aka Bel Antonio, Le (France)
... aka Bell' Antonio (USA)
Notte brava, La (1959)
... aka Bad Girls Don't Cry
... aka Gar鏾ns, Les (France)
... aka On Any Street
... aka The Big Night (USA)
Arrangiatevi! (1959)
... aka You're on Your Own (International: English title)
Giovani mariti (1958)
... aka Jeunes maris, Les (France)
... aka Young Husbands
Marisa la civetta (1957)
... aka Marisa (USA)
... aka Marisa, la coqueta (Spain: TV title)
Storia vera della signora dalle camelie, La (1981) (screenplay)
... aka Dame aux cam閘ias, La (France)
... aka Kameliendame, Die (West Germany)
... aka Lady of the Camelias (International: English title)
... aka The True Story of Camille
Fatti di gente perbene (1974) (writer)
... aka Drama of the Rich
... aka Grande Bourgeoise, La
... aka The Murri Affair
Minute de v閞it? La (1952) (assistant director)
... aka Gest鋘dnis einer Nacht (Austria)
... aka Ora della verit? L' (Italy)
... aka The Moment of Truth (USA)
Nez de cuir (1952) (assistant director)
... aka Gentiluomo d'amore (Italy: alternative title)
... aka Leathernose (International: English title)
... aka Naso di cuoio (Italy)
?pi?facile che un cammello... (1951) (assistant director)
... aka His Last Twelve Hours (USA)
... aka Pour l'amour du ciel (France)
... aka Twelve Hours to Live (USA)
Massimo Ranieri (name in art of Giovanni Calone), is an Italianpop singer, a film and stage actor, and a show-business personality. He was born in Naples (at Santa Lucia) on May 3, 1951.
One of the most popular entertainers in Italy in the past 30 years, he came to public awareness by winning two editions of the Canzonissima song festival in 1970 and 1972 with L'Amore e un attimo and Chi sara, and by representing Italy in the Eurovision song contest in 1971 in which he came 5th with L'amore è un attimo, as well as in 1973 when he came 13th with Chi sara con te. In 1988 he won the Sanremo festival with the song "Perdere l'amore", which became one of his greatest hits.
He is a nearly constant presence on Italian TV as a singer and a master of ceremonies. He starred in various successful movies since his debut in the title role of Mauro Bolognini's Metello in 1970. The same year co-starred alongside Anna Magnani in La sciantosa. Recently, his CD, Oggi e dimane --?renditions of his native Neapolitan songs set to North African instrumentation --?has had a great success.
"Metello" (1970) represents one of the best results of the image and music synergy of mauro Bolognini and Ennio Morricone. Based on the novel by Vasco Pratolini, the film is extraordinarily rendered powerful both by the performance of the very young Massimo Ranieri and by the score of Ennio Morricone. For this new CD edition we have used the original stereo and mono master tapes and that has allowed us to realize the complete version in close collaboration with Ennio Morricone who has authorized the inclusion of four tracks never released before until today. Digitally restored and remastered stereo/mono sound, deluxe booklet with eight colour pages enriched of rare archives photos.(here)
Svegliarsi un giorno
io e te
in mezzo a un prato
io e te
e far l'amore
io e te
e addormentarsi
tra gli alberi
dopo l'amore
io e te
saremo liberi
io e te
di dirci addio
o incominciare un'altra vita
quella vita che tu non vuoi più
la verità
è in fondo agli occhi tuoi
la vita mia
è negli occhi tuoi
io penso a te
ma è inutile
tu ami un altro ormai
e un'altra vita
fiorisce già
fra le tue mani
Svegliarsi un giorno
io e te
in mezzo a un prato
io e te
e far l'amore
io e te
e addormentarsi
tra gli alberi
adesso vai per la tua strada
io resto qui
a morire
vattene da me
amore addio
For the sake of get an English lyric and Chinese lyric, I have to ask my German long friend Mr . Chilian and his daughter Fabiola (She is at school, but I knew that her knows Italian) to translate above Italian lyric for all visitors. Soon I have got his reply and translated English lyric by Fabiola. Below is the file (Image)
The lyrics of "io e te" with three words
Italian lyric
English lyric (By Fabiola)
Chines lyric by me
Svegliarsi un giorno
io e te
in mezzo a un prato
io e te
e far l'amore
io e te
e addormentarsi
tra gli alberi
dopo l'amore
io e te
saremo liberi
io e te
di dirci addio
o incominciare un'altra vita
quella vita che tu non vuoi più
la verità
è in fondo agli occhi tuoi
la vita mia
è negli occhi tuoi
io penso a te
ma è inutile
tu ami un altro ormai
e un'altra vita
fiorisce già
fra le tue mani
Svegliarsi un giorno
io e te
in mezzo a un prato
io e te
e far l'amore
io e te
e addormentarsi
tra gli alberi
adesso vai per la tua strada
io resto qui
a morire
vattene da me
amore addio
00:02:46 The background of the movie is in 1880 Firenze. Italy has achieved nation's unify for 10 years. Because war for many years, the nation is very poor. Following to the development of rising capitalism, the class antagonism is showing day by day
00:10:05 Metello was born in a poor peasant family and parents was early both dead. He want rid of poor and change fortune, himself go to Firenze to find work in 15 years old. In a striking depot, he puzzled to do a hamaul, nearly suffer beating,lucky an elder help him out of a predicament
00:12:16 he have found a job in a building site before long
00:21:08 A widow Viola want a worker to help with farm work, Metello go to do this job. after a considerable period of time, both happened illicit intercourse.
00:28:08 Metello was drafted into the army in Naples . The military life for 3 years make him to widen his breadth of vision and receive exercise
00:34:43 After leave the army, he still return back the building site. He has grown up into a skilled worker and backbone of labour union
00:40:35 A worker Pallesi death because he go down from high altitude in the building site. In his funeral ceremony, the clash happened between workers and polices.
00:41:03 Metello rescued Pallesi's daughter Ersilia to avoid police's raid, both bring to a feeling. Metello is also arrested and put in prison in this clashing
00:45:32 Metello is reading Ersilia's letter in the prison
00:46:05 Ersilia is also looking forward Metello's every letter
00:48:29 First thing of Metello after he was released from prison just is to find Ersilia
00:51:32 They married and bear a children , Metello have own family and start new life.
00:52:29 Metello meet his good friend Batted in the prison at a road. He is seeking a temporary lodging. Metello warmly invite him to live in own family.
01:03:34 The boss and his assistant look over the site. They feel very unstable for the workers' resentful to their low salary.
00:56:15 The workers launch aboil dispute with boss because the price's rising. A new strike is about to happen.
01:08:39 But there is serious divergence to the tactics of struggle inside the union. Metello launchs quarrel with his friend Betto who live in Metello's home. Finally Betto left Metello's home.
01:01:48 A young married woman who is Metello's neighbour took a fancy to Metello and convey her tender feeling in a theater when they look an opera together
01:09:34 her lures Metello again in a balcony of her home
01:16:20 Metello alone stays in his home period strike, He has no control over himself and goes to her bed
01:17:58 Just in time Ersilia back to home, her founds the amour, her heart is very shock and burst into heartrending tears.
01:14:41 A title of a newspaper is "The building workers Continue unity to strike" ("CONTINUA COMPATTO LO SCIOPERO DEI MURATORI")
01:21:27 For the sake of split worker's ranks, the boos published a notice in the site, every worker will be rehearing and reemploy tomorrow.
01:26:38 Second day, the workers gather together, the contradiction happened between workers of two groups and launched aboil dispute between them.
01:26:48 The boss was hit down in confusion. The policemen run come to suppress, the workers are scattered in all directions.
01:32:31 Metello back the home, Ersilia dispute with him about his treason disloyalty behavior. Metello leave home and run to a plaza to pass the night.
01:32:49 In the site, a part of workers who are reemployed are preparing work. In order to avoid suddenness, the boss asked policemen into the site
01:33:56 A fired notice was hung out in door of the site. Metello also among the rest.
01:34:26 The workers angry look, burn with rage. A storm is coming.
01:35:03 Metello leads workers into the site, launch aboil dispute with boss who dodges behind police. Because a part workers have worked and protected by policemen, so the boss ignores their demand and persist in start operation as usual.
01:35:53 A part of Workers taken Betto as to represent who is behind police rank also dispute with them.
01:36:33 The bell of start suddenly sound up, the workers who is in outside are enraged, they shout loudly and clash to policemen, the site is in utter confusion.
01:37:18 The policemen shoot to crowd, one worker was hit and died.
01:38:32 Metello pack up his clothes in home and is about to put in a prison. The turn in the fortune diluted the contradiction of family. Ersilia release a goodwill to him finally before leave
01:42:00 Ersilia visit Metello to the prison, both became reconciled. Metello who got riper and riper rethink self-life course for more twenty years, has mixed feelings and miss his wife and children.
01:44:27 This grand strike of Italian builders history that happened in 1902 obtained mainly victory. Metello was let out of prison, Ersilia brings their son who has grown up and is waiting him outside gate of prison, the three persons finally family reunite.
01:45:09 Metello who has obtained freedom again took his son in his arms, gazed with deep feeling at Ersilia's face, is longing new life in future. The theme music sound up again, look back the protagonist's one passage of turbulence life that is poor, oppose, maze and combat (Below is a part of the video)(Whole movie 106'46")
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