Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Year: 1961
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Length: 112 mins
Format: PAL
Colour: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.37: 1
Alternate Title: The Procurer

Synopsis

Accattone follows the tragic life of a young pimp in the slums of 1960s Rome. Accattone (Franco Citti) works very hard at never working. When he loses his prize prostitute, he despairs not for her but for his lost income. Pasolini's brutally realistic first feature, assistant-directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, introduces his preoccupation with the marginalized segments of Italian bourgeois society that would characterize subsequent films like Mamma Roma and Theorem.