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IL CUORE DEL TIRANNO

(A zsárnok szíve, avagy: Boccaccio magyaroszágon)

1981, regia di Miklós Jancsó

Scheda: Nazione: Ungheria-Italia - Produzione: Magfilm Studio Budapest, Bocca di Leone Cinematografica, Radiotelevisione Italiana - Distribuzione: Prism Pictures, Troma, Hungarofilm - Soggetto: da una novella di Boccaccio - Sceneggiatura: Giovanna Gagliardo, Miklós Jancsó - Fotografia: Janós Kende - Formato: Color - Durata: 88'.

Cast: Erzsi Cserhalmi, Teresa Ann Savoy, György Cserhalmi, Ninetto Davoli, László Gálffi, Géza Hegedüs D., József Madaras, László Márkus, Zoltán Papp, Anikó Sáfár.

Trama e commenti: film.spettacolo.virgilio.it - raitre.rai.it: «...Il riferimento letterario č l'occasione per una messa in scena della nevrosi del potere sviluppando una dimensione di spettacolo "totale": intersecazione di piů livelli visivi, personaggi in continuo movimento, marchingegni scenici. Una compagnia di attori girovaghi italiani si ritrova a rappresentare uno spettacolo in una corte straniera dove diventa presto evidente che la violenza del potere rende vano ogni sforzo di ultimarlo. Č un potere visto soprattutto come messa in scena, liturgia, rito affascinante. I due registri si strutturano in una continua giostra di movimenti - degli attori, di effetti ottici, di carrelli, di nastri trasportatori - all'interno del claustrofobico spazio chiuso in cui č girato tutto il film».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - videoguide.ru - movies2.nytimes.com - kinox.ru - entertainment.msn.com: «It is the 15th c. in Hungary. And young prince Gaspar (Laszlo Galffy) was sent off to Italy when he was just two years old, and now he has come back to his father's castle as a grown man, with a troupe of actors in tow. Once arrived at the castle, he discovers his mother is in a kind of trance state, reportedly drinking the blood of virgins to keep her forever young (just like the infamous Bloody Lady Elizabeth Bathory). Gaspar's father has died in very mysterious circumstances - some say it was a bear that killed him (another symbolical, legendary animal in European lore) and others say he was done in by the Turks. Meanwhile, his uncle says the trance-like queen was really in love with him - and sometimes he says not. Yet they marry, and when she comes out of her mesmerized state for awhile she tells Gaspar that just like his friends, none of the castle's inhabitants are real, they are all actors and she is actually younger than he is - and then she falls back into her trance. As Gaspar seems to have nowhere to turn, a Turk comes into the picture to test him for his worthiness to rule, and says he (the Turk) is really Gaspar's father. The tests turn out negative, and Gaspar is told he cannot be king. There seems to be no choice but to leave the castle with his troupe of actors, and as the castle opens up onto a vast field, he and his friends - and an underhanded Turkish priest - make a dash for freedom, hoping to elude the weaponry of the Turkish guards behind them» (Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide).

Conosciuto anche con il titolo: The Tyrant's Heart or Boccacio in Hungary; Boccacio in Hungary.

SECONDA VISIONE, di Gaetano Pellecchia

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