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The Hawks and the Sparrows (Italian: Uccellacci e uccellini, literally "Birds of prey and Little Birds") is a 1966 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. It was entered into the 1966 Cannes Film Festival where a "Special Mention" was made of Totò, for his acting performance.
The Hawks and the Sparrows: Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. With Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi, Umberto Bevilacqua. Totò and his son Ninetto are drifting on a road in Italy when they meet a speaking crow.
A comic Marxist fable that balances heady ideas about religion, poverty, and class struggle with irreverent slapstick sight gags, The Hawks and the Sparrows finds Pasolini at his lightest yet as stingingly subversive as ever.
Pier Paolo Pasolini's "The Hawks and the Sparrows" is a whimsical fantasy about Christianity and Marxism; the question is left open as to whether Pasolini believes in either, or neither. Not that it matters much, Pasolini seems to say. Hawks still eat sparrows, not matter what a hawk is, or a sparrow.
Page 1 of 2, 6 total items. Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. A man (Totò) and his son (Davoli Ninetto) take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that ...
Fascinating neorealist-surrealist tableau of the daily life of Ninetto and his father Toto Innocenti (the holy Ciccillio), who, suddenly, in the mezzo del camminin...and with a raven -son of Mr. Duda and Mrs. Conciencia- instead of Virgilio, a charming and cynical crow due to its resemblance to the Nescio of Erasmus of Rotterdam, undertake a ...
A comic Marxist fable that balances heady ideas about religion, poverty, and class struggle with irreverent slapstick sight gags, THE HAWKS AND THE SPARROWS finds Pasolini at his lightest yet as stingingly subversive as ever.
