The Wish To Be a Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema 2024 / L' udienza / Italy, France 1971
Amedeo, an army officer on leave, travels to Rome genuinely intent on having a private audience with Pope Paul VI. This peaceful mission comes to the attention of a Vatican police commissioner, who sends Amedeo on a roller-coaster jaunt involving a series of absurd situations, from his arrest and harassment from officials and the Pontifical Swiss Guard, to an improbable affair with a high-class prostitute. For many months, Amedeo stumbles through Vatican officialdom, desperately searching for someone to help him. What Ferreri originally intended as a faithful filmic adaptation of Kafka’s The Castle became a tragicomic allegory loosely inspired by the novel, exploring the intricate labyrinth of relationships between the citizen and Power.
Lorenzo Esposito
112 min / Color, DCP
Director Marco Ferreri
/ Screenplay Marco Ferreri, Dante Matelli
/ Dir. of Photography Mario Vulpiani
/ Music Teo Usuelli
/ Editor Giuliana Trippa
/ Art Director Luciana Vedovelli
/ Producer Franco Cristaldi
/ Production Vides Cinematografica
/ Cast Enzo Jannacci, Claudia Cardinale, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Vittorio Gassman, Alain Cuny, Daniele Dublino
/ Sales Cristaldifilm
/ Contact Cineteca di Bologna
Marco Ferreri (1928, Milan – 1997, Paris). Selected filmography: The Conjugal Bed (Una storia moderna - L'ape regina, 1963), The Ape Woman (La donna scimmia, 1963), Dillinger Is Dead (Dillinger è morto, 1968), The Audience (L'udienza, 1971), Liza (1972), The Big Feast (La Grande Bouffe, 1973), Bye Bye Monkey (Rêve de singe, 1977), The Story of Piera (Storia di Piera, 1983), The Flesh (La carne, 1991).
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