A Violent Life

…and Una vita violenta (1959; A Violent Life). These brutally realistic depictions of the poverty and squalor of slum life in Rome were similar in character to his first film, Accattone (1961), and all three works dealt with the lives of thieves, prostitutes, and other denizens of the Roman underworld.

…and Una vita violenta [1959; A Violent Life]). There were memories of the north’s struggle against fascist and Nazi domination from Vittorini and from Beppe Fenoglio (I ventitrè giorni della città di Alba [1952; The Twenty-three Days of the City of Alba]). There were sad tales of lost war by…