The Hawks and the Sparrows 3742730 207649304 2008-04-23T17:19:07Z MSBOT 1822420 robot Adding: [[fa:پرنده‌های بزرگ و پرنده‌های کوچک]] {{Infobox_Film | name = The Hawks and the Sparrows| image = Uccellacci.jpg|| imdb_id = 0061132 | writer = [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]] | starring = [[Totò]], <br> [[Ninetto Davoli]], <br> [[Femi Benussi]] | director = [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]] | producer = Alfredo Bini | distributor = CIDIF| released = [[1966]] | runtime = 88 min. | language = Italian | music = [[Ennio Morricone]]| awards = | budget = | }} '''''The Hawks and the Sparrows''''' is a [[1966 in film|1966]] [[Italian language|Italian]] film directed by [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]]. The Italian title is ''Uccellacci e uccellini''. The movie is a post-[[neorealist]] story about [[Totò]], the beloved stone-faced clown of Italian folk-stories. Totò and his son Ninetto, roam the neighbourhood and the countryside of Rome. During their walk they meet a talking crow, who, as seen on the [[intertitle]]s, ''"Per chi avesse dei dubbi o si fosse distratto, ricordiamo che il Corvo è un intellettuale di sinistra -diciamo così- di prima della morte di [[Palmiro Togliatti]]"'' ("For the benefit of those who were not paying attention or are in doubt, we remind that the Crow is a -so called- left-wing intellectual of the kind of those living before Palmiro Togliatti's death"). <br> The Crow tells them the tale of Ciccillo and Ninetto (still played by Totò and Ninetto), two franciscan friars, who were bid by [[San Francesco]] to preach to the hawks and the sparrows. They were successful in preaching the commandment of love unto them separately, but were not able to get them to love each other. <br> After the tale, the journey of Totò and Ninetto carries on, the Crow still following them and continuously speaking in an all-too-intellectually sounding way. They meet many other people in a deeply visionary setting, among which: land-owners who order them out of their land and end up shooting at Totò and Ninetto who wouldn't obey; a family living in a slum that Totò threathens to drive them out of their house; a group of travelling actors boarding a Cadillac; ''"1° convegno dei dentisti dantisti"'' (an almost impossible to translate joke "1st meeting of dentists-Dante scholars"); an engineer who is waiting for Totò to give him the money he owes him. After that, a brief extract of footage of Palmiro Togliatti's funeral. Then, after having met a prostitute, they end up killing and eating the Crow, whom they found to be unconscionably boring. ==Pasolini about his movie== Pasolini declared that ''Uccellacci e uccellini'' was his favourite film, as it was the only one that did not disappoint his expectations. ==Trivia== Ennio Morricone's opening theme music comically features a [[baritone]] singing the movie's credits in mock-operatic fashion, along with a few illustrative sound effects (ie a bird whistle for the title, laughter when Morricone's name is mentioned). ==External links== * {{imdb title|id=0061132|title=Uccellacci e uccellini}} {{Movies_by_Pasolini}} [[Category:1966 films|Hawks and the Sparrows, The)]] [[Category:Films directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini|Hawks and the Sparrows, The]] {{Italy-film-stub}} [[fa:پرنده‌های بزرگ و پرنده‌های کوچک]] [[fr:Des oiseaux, petits et gros]] [[it:Uccellacci e uccellini]] [[ru:Птицы большие и малые (фильм)]]