Il seme dell'uomo (1969)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.9/10   

Director:

Marco Ferreri

Escritores:

Marco Ferreri (story) and
Sergio Bazzini (screenplay)

Género:

Ciencia-Ficción | Drama

Plot:

A young couple argue about having a child in the days after a global plague wipes out most of Earth's population. |

Plot Keywords:

Explosion | End Of The World | Pregnancy | Whale | Reproduction

Comentarios de los usuarios:

could come true

Reparto

Marco Margine	...	Cino
Anne Wiazemsky	...	Dora
Annie Girardot	...	The Foreigner Woman
Rada Rassimov
Milvia Deanna Frosini
Maria Teresa Piaggio
Angela Pagano
Adriano Aprà
Vittorio Armentano
Sergio Giussani
Mario Bagnato
Mario Vulpiani
Luciano Odorisio

También conocida como:

The Seed of Man
El semen del hombre (Spain) [es]

Duración:

113 min

País:

Italy

Idioma:

Italiano

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sonido:

Mono

Compañía:

Polifilm

Conexiones de Película:

References Dillinger è morto (1969)

could come true

Marco Ferreri's surreal film "Il seme dell'uomo" ("The Seed of Man" in English) looks more plausible today than it probably did when it first came out. The movie portrays a young man and woman who, after learning of a plague ravaging the populace, take refuge in a house on the coast and turn it into a miniature museum displaying cultural relics from the days before the plague. But that's not the end...

An interesting point is that the movie never identifies what the plague in question is specifically. It could be any scourge. Certainly plenty of bad things have afflicted the planet recently - the combination of global warming and the financial crisis constitutes a perfect storm - to the point that the events portrayed in this movie look as though they could come true. I bet that Marco Ferreri never realized what a prescient movie he was making!

So, I recommend this. Not just as a warning about what the world could turn into, but as a look at Italy's changing cinema in the late '60s (in which Ferreri played a major role). Definitely worth seeing.