NIGHT HEAT
synopsis
In Rome, small-time thieves Scinttilone and Ruggeretto steal four rifles and catch prostitutes Anna and Supplizia on the street to mislead the police. They seek the jobber Mosciarella, but he is at a funeral and gives them no attention. But Gino "Bellabella" overhears them and offers to deal the merchandise with another contact. He fails and the whores present a deaf-mute acquaintance who lives on the outskirts of Rome to buy the guns; the prostitute Nicoletta who was with the man returns to Rome with the quintet. When the youngsters propose to have sex in the middle of nowhere, the prostitutes believe that they intend to leave them there. Scinttilone, Ruggeretto, and Bellabella sneak out to the car and leave the women in the countryside. Later they discover that the women stole their money. They seek them out on the streets and fight against another gang. However, when the police arrive, the six youngsters leave the place together and head to the house of one of them, and Ruggeretto falls for the host's sister. However, Bellabella steals the host's bountiful wallet and Ruggeretto fights him to get the wallet and return it to the host. While they are fighting, Scinttilone flees with the wallet to the house of his girlfriend Rossana. Ruggeretto chases Scinttilone along a night of alienation, illusions, and adventures.
original title: | La notte brava |
country: | Italy, France |
year: | 1959 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Mauro Bolognini |
film run: | 95' |
release date: | IT 13/11/1959, SE 28/03/1960, DE 01/04/1960, UK 10/1960, FR 20/01/1961, FI 16/06/1961, DK 20/11/1961, HU 16/05/1979 |
screenplay: | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
cast: | Rosanna Schiaffino, Elsa Martinelli, Laurent Terzieff, Jean-Claude Brialy, Anna Maria Ferrero, Franco Interlenghi, Tomas Milian, Maurizio Conti, Franco Balducci, Mario Meniconi, Isarco Ravaioli, Mylène Demongeot, Antonella Lualdi |
cinematography by: | Armando Nannuzzi |
film editing: | Nino Baragli |
art director: | Carlo Egidi |
costumes designer: | Marcel Escoffier |
music: | Piero Piccioni |
producer: | Tonino Cervi, Alessandro Jacovoni |
co-producer: | Alberto Giommarelli |