Pigsty

Original title: Porcile

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A man wandering in a volcanic desert forms a band of murderous cannibals. A post-war German industrialist learns that his son is unable to make decisions or form relationships.

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A man wandering in a volcanic desert forms a band of murderous cannibals. A post-war German industrialist learns that his son is unable to make decisions or form relationships.A man wandering in a volcanic desert forms a band of murderous cannibals. A post-war German industrialist learns that his son is unable to make decisions or form relationships.A man wandering in a volcanic desert forms a band of murderous cannibals. A post-war German industrialist learns that his son is unable to make decisions or form relationships.

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Pierre Clémenti

Cannibale
(as Pierre Clementi)

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Julian Klotz
(as Jean Pierre Leaud)

Alberto Lionello

Signore Klotz

Ugo Tognazzi

Herdhitze

Anne Wiazemsky

Margarita Lozano

Madame Klotz
(as Margherita Lozano)

Marco Ferreri

Hans Günther

Franco Citti

Secondo cannibale

Ninetto Davoli

Maracchione

Luigi Barbini

Soldato nel deserto
(uncredited)

Sergio Elia

Servo
(uncredited)

Antonino Faà di Bruno

Vecchio (scena della sentenza)
(uncredited)

Director
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Trivia
Pier Paolo Pasolini offered the role of the young cannibal to Klaus Kinski, who turned it down because the salary was too low.

Goofs
In one of the shots related to the medieval cannibal plot, we see a dust cloud rising in the distance behind the characters. It is a car driving across the mountain landscape.

Quotes
Young cannibal: I killed my father, I ate human flesh, and I quiver with joy.

Connections
Edited into Pier Paolo Pasolini (1995)

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Definitely NOT the Pasolini to begin with...

It's arguably his least accessible work.And probably his more boring too.Like in "Oedipe" ,or in "teorema" ,there is a mix of contemporary scenes and a tale of long ago ,which could happen anywhere ,in the Middle Ages or the antiquity -which Pasolini broached with his Gospel,Medea and Oedipe-.

"Porcile" bears the appropriate scars of the time .All the scenes between Jean-Pierre Léaud (fortunately,he is dubbed ,so the French -speaking do not have to hear his affected voice)and Anne Wiazemsky are terribly stodgy.The two "intellectual" "actors" epitomize ,as far as I'm concerned,the nadir of French acting.These interminable dialogs recall the dreadful rhetoric of GOdard's "La Chinoise" .

Things go better when Pasolini directs the fathers: one of them,a former Nazi has A skeleton in the closet and the other one's son is a zoophilist (check the title).As for the Pierre Clementi sequences -in an undefined past,which deal with cannibalism (I killed my father/I eat human flesh),the connection with the main plot escapes me,I fear.

A young person who wants to discover Pasolini should not begin with "Porcile" (or ,worse "Salo" )."Mamma Roma" "Il vangelo secondo Matteo" or "Medea" are wiser choices.