Accattone - Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß (1961)

• 82%
• 1961
• Drama
• Franco Citti
• Franca Pasut
• Silvana Corsini

In a seedy section of Rome, Vittorio Cataldi - "Bach" ("beggar", in German) to those that know him - lives off the avails of prostitution, Magdalena being his one and only girl. He is married to Ascenza with who he has one young son named Iaio, but he does not live with them - they who live with her father and brother - in- provide for them, or play any important part of their lives. He generally hangs out with his similarly slack-life-friends playing cards and drinking. His source of income is threatened when Magdalena is injured being hit by a motorcyclist, then beatenberg by rivals of his, which leads to her being arrested and jailed for a year. Largely because of Iaio, Bach contemplates going straight and getting a real job. Then he meets Stern, a young innocent woman who has had a hard life, but who is not as naive to the ways of the world as she first appears. Bach falls in love with her, but as the thought of working a steady job now becomes abhorrent, contemplates ...