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We kiss our hands It is a 1973 film directed by Vittorio Schiraldi.

The film is taken from the novel of the same name of the same director.

Stefano Ferrante, son of the mafia chief of Palermo Angelino, is killed by the her Gaspare Ardizzone because he refused to sell him a building land. The old Ferrante sends to call the United States Santino Billeci, but he is killed by Ardizzone, who will become a family head shortly after head. Masino, son of the councilor of Angelino Ferrante, falls in love with Mariuccia, Stefano’s widow, who is pregnant.

For this reason, and because she made her sell the disputed land, Mariuccia is killed and Masino is induced by the same father to commit suicide. Angelino Ferrante is sent to the confinement of Gaspare Ardizzone, and then Luca, Stefano’s cousin, decides to end it: he kills a group of opponents and clashes with Ardizzone who, before being killed, hurts him. But since he also transgressed the rules is killed.

Returning clandestinely from the confinement, Angelino Ferrante goes with his old councilor on the land full of buildings under construction: both are killed between the indifference of the workers.

It was distributed starting February 23, 1973. [first]

The first screening of the film in Palermo, with the presence of the director, arouses lively controversy; The public contested the representation of the Sicilian people with a passive attitude, victim of fear and helpless to the progressive power taken of the mafia organizations.

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«I hope that from this a more serene awareness can arise. Some of the spectators reacted not by hesitating to define We kiss our hands A “mafia” film because of the accents of moved Elegy that accompany the sunset of a generation of “Don” now buried. ”

( Vittorio Schiraldi [2] )

Criticism [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

“The mafia probably” thanks “the producers and authors of the genre films. Violence is described to you as a picturesque element, the links with the official forms of power are silent. Schiraldi saw the mafia without the necessary critical detachment. [3]
Vittorio Schiraldi, writer of the book he himself poured on the film, failed the blow succeeded in Bevilacqua that ” The califfa » e in « This species of love “He defended his individuality as a literary and cinematographic author. The debutant director offers us a only commercial film, where actors also committed as Kennedy or Focas make the figure of mafia mannequins very well taken by Marcello Gatti director of photography. The godfather (or appetite that it is) does not apply to the American one and above all still presents the mafia as a myth and not as a dirty thing. [4] »

( Piero Perona )

“[…] Also We kiss our hands It is a film of coarse consumption, with events and psychological conflicts, with loves and deaths, with pain and sizes. Above all, the director and subjectist Vittorio Schiraldi has kept underlining the figure of the old mafia, in the direction of the “greatness”. Good and wise, linked to the noble traditions of the time that was, Don Angelino Ferrante is covered with the most bad clothes so that he can be nice to the viewer. It seems that in Schiraldi does not pass through the mind that it is a criminal, a exploiter, a head of the underworld. Nothing: does it take the “positive” character? And then here he is there. Of course, the Muliebre beauty is also necessary, and then the young and attractive Agostina Belli intervenes to satisfy the ambitions of the spectator of a good mouth. We are not there, we are not there. Schiraldi director’s hand is somewhat badly bad, and the bad sequence of the discovery of Stefano’s corpse would be enough by his wife to try him; The actors are almost all stopped at the level of sketching. Kennedy is perhaps the only one to provide good test, while Belli shows a very bitter qualities. On the other hand, Marcello Gatti’s photography, and Simonetti’s ironic music, is certainly commendable. ”

( Giannalberto nazizi [5] )
  1. ^ Today at the great ideal. World preview. , The print , February 23, 1973.
  2. ^ A film about the mafia is contested in Palermo , The print , February 26, 1973.
  3. ^ The first visions on the screen. Provincial loves, 50s , The print , February 24, 1973.
  4. ^ A “godfather” to the ancient with Arthur Kennedy , Evening print , February 24, 1973.
  5. ^ Cineprime. «The godfather» docet , After you! , 3 Marzo 1973

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