I Compagni (1963)

I Compagni aka The Organizer (1963)


I Compagni aka The Organizer is a 1963 Italian drama film directed by Mario Monicelli.

The script was nominated for the Academy Award.

The Organizer (I Compagni) takes a gritty, near-documentary approach to its subject matter: the exploitation of
Italian laborers in the 19th century. Shorn of all his studio-imposed glamour, Marcello Mastrioanni plays a Genoan
political refugee visiting a friend in Turin. Appalled by the horrible working conditions in the town's textile mill,
Mastrioanni stays on to organize the workers in a strike. Though he is nearly killed several times, Mastrioanni
survives to set an example for the workers, who rally together into a powerful union. The fact that Marcello
Mastrioanni was bearded and bespectacled in the manner of a Bolshevist radical was enough for The Organizer to be
condemned by certain extreme anti-Communist elements in Hollywood--to no avail, since the film was nominated for an
American Oscar, and even given a commendation by the ultraconservative National Board of Review.

IMDB: 8.1/10


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056945/

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