The_Legend_of_the_Holy_Drinker_(film)

<i>The Legend of the Holy Drinker</i> (film)

The Legend of the Holy Drinker (film)

1988 Italian film

The Legend of the Holy Drinker (Italian: La leggenda del santo bevitore) is a 1988 Italian film written and directed by Ermanno Olmi.

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The film won the Golden Lion at the 45th Venice Film Festival.[1] It also won four David di Donatello Awards (for Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing) and two Silver Ribbons (for Best Director and Best Screenplay).[1] The film was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 61st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[2]

It is based on the 1939 novella of the same name by the Austrian novelist Joseph Roth.[3]

Plot

A drunken homeless man (Rutger Hauer) in Paris is lent 200 francs by a stranger as long as he promises to repay it to a local church when he can afford to; the film depicts the man's constant frustrations as he attempts to do so.

Cast

References

  1. [1]
    Enrico Lancia (1998). I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 8877422211.
  2. [2]
    Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  3. [3]
    Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 2000. ISBN 8877424230.
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