Sergio Citti: la poesia scellerata del cinema

[Machine translation] Self-taught film poet, wild director and storyteller, and Pasolini's anthropological guide in the Roman suburbs, Sergio Citti is an unparalleled author, even outside the Italian scene. From Vittorio Gassman to Fiorello, from Harvey Keitel to Jodie Foster, from Carlo Verdone to Roberto Benigni, his films are populated by an amazing gallery of actors and characters, faces and voices of a great novelist with a vision that is both primal and revealing., This book contains a complete filmography (commented by the most authoritative scholars of Citti's work), a detailed biography, an updated bibliography and a montage of interviews. The volume also offers an unpublished compilation of testimonies of all the talents that have crossed his artistic adventure, and a series of portraits that return the expressive path of the director but also of the man. As Carlo Verdone says, “Citti in the cinema was something unique, I like to define him as a proletarian craftsman of cinema. He had a very special sensitivity and was also a very good and generous person. It was funny because it was precisely 'Sergio Citti de Fiumicino, 'with his hair a bit long and that beautiful Swedish wife who spoke Italian better than him.”