Pigsty (film)

Pigsty (Italian: Porcile) is a 1969 Italian film, written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marco Ferreri, Ugo Tognazzi, Pierre Clémenti, Alberto Lionello, Franco Citti and Anne Wiazemsky.

Pigsty
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPier Paolo Pasolini
Written byPier Paolo Pasolini
Produced byGian Vittorio Baldi
Robert Shaye (american production)
StarringPierre Clémenti
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Alberto Lionello
Ugo Tognazzi
CinematographyTonino Delli Colli
Armando Nannuzzi
Giuseppe Ruzzolini
Edited byNino Baragli
Music byBenedetto Ghiglia
Distributed byNew Line Cinema
Release date
31 August 1969 (Italy)
Running time
99 minutes
CountriesItaly
France
LanguageItalian

Plot

The film features two parallel stories. The first one is set in an unknown past time and is about a young man (Clémenti) who wanders in a volcanic landscape (shot around Etna) and turns into a cannibal. The man joins forces with a thug (Citti) and ravages the countryside. At the end, he and his gang get arrested and at his execution, he recites the famous tagline of the film: "I killed my father, I ate human flesh and I quiver with joy." The story is about the human capacity of destruction and a rebellion against the social prerequisites implied against it.

The second story is about Herr Klotz (Lionello), a German industrialist and his young son Julian (Léaud) who live in 1960s Germany. Julian, instead of passing time with his radically politicised fiancée Ida (Wiazemsky), prefers to build relationships with pigs. Herr Klotz, on the other hand, with his loyal aide Hans Guenther (Ferreri), tries to solve his rivalry with fellow industrialist Herdhitze (Tognazzi). The two industrialists join forces while Julian gets eaten by pigs in the sty. Herdhitze intends to conceal the event. The story attempts to provide a link between the Third Reich and Wirtschaftswunder Germany.

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 56% based on 9 critics, with an average rating of 5.7/10.[1]

References
  1. "Porcile". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 23 August 2021.


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