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Director
  
Marco Bellocchio

Duration
  

Language
  
Italian

7.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Thriller

Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina movie poster
Writer
  
Sergio Donati
,
Goffredo Fofi

Release date
  
19 October 1972

Music director
  
Nicola Piovani, Ennio Morricone

Screenplay
  
Sergio Donati, Goffredo Fofi

Cast
  
Gian Maria Volonté
(The Managing Editor of \'Il Giornale\'),
Fabio Garriba
(Roveda),
John Steiner
(Ingegner Montelli - Publisher of \'Il Giornale\'),
Jean Rougeul
(The Managing Editor of \'Il Giornale\'),
Carla Tatò
(Bizanti\'s wife),
Michel Bardinet
(Member of the Editorial Staff)

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Gian Maria Volonte movies, Movies about Italy, Political movies

Slap the Monster on Page One (Italian: Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina) is a 1972 Italian drama film directed by Marco Bellocchio.

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It depicts the daily life of a fictitious Italian daily newspaper Il Giornale (The Journal). The newspaper caters to a conservative, fascist, borgeouis public and its chief-editor Bizanti tries in all manners to give a right-wing slant even to the most trivial news items, while at the same time edulcorating and desensitizing the thornier issues, such as unemployment, police brutality and so on. The whole editorial staff is thrown in a tantrum when a young girl is found raped and killed, going as far as soliciting death penalty nostalgias (capital punishment has been abolished in Italy since the fall of Fascism) and to actually derail the investigation leading the police to a false culprit: a young left-wing student which becomes the "ideal" scapegoat for the newspaper's prejudiced readership. The movie, a searing j'accuse on the perils of press manipulation, closes with no happy ending in sight, with the public opinion totally mesmerized by Bizanti and his cronies for the satisfaction of their backers and financers.

Two years after the movie's distribution a right newspaper called Il Giornale was actually started in Italy by Indro Montanelli.

Cast

  • Gian Maria Volontè as Bizanti
  • Laura Betti as Rita Zigai
  • Fabio Garriba as Roveda
  • John Steiner as Montelli
  • Corrado Solari as Mario Boni
  • Jacques Herlin as Lauri
  • Carla Tatò as Bizanti's Wife
  • Marco Bellocchio
  • Michel Bardinet as Vanzina
  • Jean Rougeul
  • Gianni Solaro
  • Enrico DiMarco
  • Silvia Kramar
  • Massimo Patrone as the real killer
  • Luigi Antonio Guerra

    • References

    Slap the Monster on Page One Wikipedia
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