Il federale (The Fascist). 1961. Directed by Luciano Salce

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Il federale (The Fascist). 1961. Italy. Written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Courtesy Luce Cinecittà.

Il federale (The Fascist). 1961. Italy/France. Directed by Luciano Salce. Screenplay by Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia, Salce. With Ugo Tognazzi, Georges Wilson, Stefania Sandrelli. In Italian; English subtitles. 98 min.

An anarchical comedy of the first order, Luciano Salce’s Il federale stars Ugo Tognazzi in his breakthrough performance as Primo Arcovazzi, a fanatical graduate of the Black Brigade (the Northern Italian fascist paramilitary), who stands to earn a promotion if he transports a notorious anti-fascist intellectual to Rome for “rehabilitation”—with the partisans, Germans, and Allied Forces all nipping at their heels.

DCP from Luce Cinecittà.

This film accompanies Ugo Tognazzi: Tragedies of a Ridiculous Man.

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