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Un uomo a metà

Un uomo a metà

1966Movie⏱️ 1h 33m
Drama
7
IMDB Rating
253 votes

Michele, a young intellectual, enters an existential crisis when, without realizing it, his conception of life comes into conflict with collective morality. The result is a serious neurosis that detaches him from life, from work, ...

Director
Vittorio De Seta
Writers
Vittorio De Seta, Fabio Carpi, Vera Gherarducci
Stars
Jacques Perrin, Lea Padovani, Ilaria Occhini
Release Date
May 26, 1967
Language
Italian, German
Country
Italy, France
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Wins
🎯 2
Nominations
💬 2
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Jacques Perrin
Jacques Perrin
as Michele
Lea Padovani
Lea Padovani
as Michele's mother
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Ilaria Occhini
as Elena
Gianni Garko
Gianni Garko
as Michele's brother
Rosemary Dexter
Rosemary Dexter
as Marina
Pier Paolo Capponi
Pier Paolo Capponi
as Ugo
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Francesca De Seta
as Simonetta
Kitty Swan
Kitty Swan
as Girl at park
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Ivan Rassimov
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Anny Degli Uberti

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.85 : 1
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White

🏷️ Keywords

psychological dramaworld war twoitalycarl junghunting

🎯 Categories

ItalianPsychological DramaDrama

⭐ Featured Review

Overlooked masterpiece. See it.
by markwood2722014-01-28
9/10

"The obscurity of this motion picture is hard to explain after having watched it twice. Maybe it got lost in the crowded field of mid 60's art cinema, neglected amid Woman in the Dunes, Persona, Blowup, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Masculin/Feminin, Darling, 2001. And the name of the director may be too similar to that of the director of Bicycle Thieves. It has been known to happen. All I can say is that Un Uomo a Meta blew my mind even without understanding all of the dialogue/voice-over in Italian. There's so much more to this film than the words. De Seta uses the medium to ..."

💡 Did You Know?

Despite Luciano Tovoli being accredited as camera operator, all the filming of the film was performed by the director Vittorio De Seta. Actually Tovoli's work was finding and testing the locations for the following days of shooting.

📖 Synopsis

Michele, a young intellectual, enters an existential crisis when, without realizing it, his conception of life comes into conflict with collective morality. The result is a serious neurosis that detaches him from life, from work, ...