Theorem (1968) on Netflix
In Milan, a wealthy household receives a mysterious guest called The Visitor. Paolo, his wife Lucia, their children Odetta and Pietro, and the housekeeper Emilia each fall under his influence.
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At an estate in Milan, a young man known only as The Visitor becomes a guest of an upper-class family. The household includes the industrialist Paolo, his wife Lucia, their daughter Odetta, their son Pietro, and the housekeeper Emilia. The visitor's presence begins to change each of them. Emilia, the devout housekeeper, is the first to become involved with him. Pietro, sensitive and uncertain, finds comfort in the visitor's attention. Lucia, the mother, is drawn to him. Odetta, sheltered and timid, becomes emotionally intimate with him. Paolo, the father, is also pulled into the visitor's orbit. The visitor asks nothing in return and gives himself to each person.
Cast
- Adele Cambriaas Emilia - the second servant
- Luigi Barbinias Il ragazzo alla stazione
- Alfonso Gattoas Doctor
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Theorem (1968)
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- Teorema was attacked by the religious right and the Vatican over its sexual content on release, and a special award it won at the Venice Film Festival from the International Catholic Film Office was withdrawn after the Vatican protested.
- Pasolini and producer Donato Leoni were charged with obscenity by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome, but were acquitted after only an hour's deliberations.
- Teorema was Pasolini's sixth feature film and the first in which he used principally professional actors instead of the amateurs and newcomers of his earlier work.
- Pasolini expanded Teorema into a novel of the same name in the same year, writing it simultaneously with the film's production.
