CHI LAVORA È PERDUTO (IN CAPO AL MONDO) (Italia, Francia, 1963, 81′)

Sunday September 28th, at 9 p.m., Bistrot Culturale Ramo d’Oro, Galleria Umberto I, Piazza della Repubblica, 4

Event in partnership with Ramo d’Oro

Admission method: free admission with reservation.

International title: Chi lavora è perduto (In capo al mondo)
Original title: Chi lavora è perduto (In capo al mondo)
Director: Tinto Brass
Screenplay: Tinto Brass, Franco Arcalli, Gian Carlo Fusco
Photography: Bruno Barcarol
Editing: Tinto Brass
Music: Piero Piccioni
Starring: Sady Rebbot, Pascale Audret, Nando Angelini, Franco Arcalli, Piero Vida, Tino
Production: Zebra Films

Bonifacio B. is almost 27 years old, while he waits to reappear again at the psychoanalyst’s office in a large company to know the results of his job interview, he wanders around the sunny streets of Venice on a summer day. The heat, the need to pass the time and to make an important career choice lead him to experience a jumble of various memories, disconnected thoughts and exaggerated fantasies. Some family situations and the various stages of his education and training come back to him. He meets two friends who are in a mental institution. In a final, delirious attempt to find a solution to his problem, Bonifacio, with his anarchist views, decides to rebel against the system that seeks to absorb him, imagining various loopholes he could take.

Tinto Brass (Milan, 1933), born Giovanni Brass, director, screenwriter, editor, producer, and writer, owes his fame to the erotic cinema he has been a protagonist of since the 1970s. But in the previous decade, he created works steeped in an anarchic vision, humor, and social commentary, engaging with genres. His first feature film, Chi lavora è perduto, was initially censored. Brass refused to make cuts and obtained approval by changing the original title.

Filmography (selected): Chi lavora è perduto (1963), Ça ira, il fiume della rivolta (1964), Il disco volante (1964), Yankee (1966), Col cuore in gola (1967), Nerosubianco (1969), L’urlo (1970), Dropout (1970), La vacanza (1971), Salon Kitty (1976), Action (1980), La chiave (1983), Miranda (1985), Capriccio (1987), Snack Bar Budapest (1988), Paprika (1991), Così fan tutte (1992), L’uomo che guarda (1994), Monella (1998), Tra(sgre)dire (2000), Senso ’45 (2002), Fallo! (2003), Monamour (2005).