The Skin
La Peau
Liliana Cavani
In 1943, Naples is open to American soldiers. In a setting where everything is for sale, from black market produce to young children, the poverty of the population grows in a context of the disaster of fascism and rich American liberators.
With : Marcello Mastroianni, Ken Marshall, Claudia Cardinale, Burt Lancaster, Alexandra King, Carlo Giuffré, Liliana Tari
Screenplay : Liliana Cavani, Robert Katz, Catherine Breillat (d'après le roman La Peau de Curzio Malaparte)
Image : Armando Nannuzzi
Sound : Michael Billingsley
Editing : Ruggero Mastroianni
Decors : Dante Ferretti
Costumes : Piero Tosi, Alberto Verso, Ugo Pericoli
Music : Lalo Schifrin
Screenplay : Liliana Cavani, Robert Katz, Catherine Breillat (d'après le roman La Peau de Curzio Malaparte)
Image : Armando Nannuzzi
Sound : Michael Billingsley
Editing : Ruggero Mastroianni
Decors : Dante Ferretti
Costumes : Piero Tosi, Alberto Verso, Ugo Pericoli
Music : Lalo Schifrin
Production : Opera Films Produzione
Distribution: Gaumont Distribution
Distribution: Gaumont Distribution
A free adaptation of Curzio Malaparte's novel, Liliana Cavani gives us a raw view of the aftermath of the war, the shock between the victorious and the defeated, but above all between to civilisations. She denounces contempt and racism. "The clash of two cultures. On the one hand the Neapolitans, misery, prostitution, ruins. On the other, the Americans, Coca-Cola, comfort: the contradictions explode" (Liliana Cavani). The character of Malaparte "played by Marcello Mastroianni, an ironic, bitter and lucid intermediary between the Americans and the Neapolitans, and who, through sarcasm, provocation and acts of friendship, works to break down prejudice and remove Yankee contempt..." (Jeannine Baron).