Ninetto Davoli plays three lives at once and still has time to judge his mom's love life.
Ninetto De Terenzi is a Roman who lives for the day, helping a lawyer in his intrigues and acting as a stunt double for a cheating engineer; he disapproves of the relationship his widowed mother has with a married man and is engaged to a good worker, whom she tries to betray.
Acting
Ninetto Davoli's elastic physical comedy carries every scene.
Production
Gritty 70s Rome locations feel authentically lived-in.
Director
Carlo Veo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ninetto Davoli was Pasolini's longtime partner and muse; this was one of his rare lead roles after Pasolini's 1975 death.
The film captures Rome's borgate periphery before gentrification—locations now unrecognizable.
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