Teorema

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Paolo Pasolini, Pier, film director.

Girotti, Massimo, actor.

Mangano, Silvana, actor.

Stamp, Terence, actor.

The Criterion Collection (Firm), Distributor.

Kanopy (Firm)., Distributor.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery films.

Foreign films.

Motion pictures.

Drama.

Genre:

Feature films

Physical Description:

1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

Place of Publication:

The Criterion Collection 1968

[San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2023

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

digital

video file MPEG-4 Flash

Summary:

One of the iconoclastic Pier Paolo Pasolini's most radical provocations finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness. Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger-perhaps an angel, perhaps a devil-who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family, precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. Unfolding nearly wordlessly in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle-blocked from exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy-is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and art and a primal scream into the void

Participant:

Massimo Girotti, Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp

Notes:

Title from title frames

Film

In Process Record

Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1968

Publisher Number:

14354666 Kanopy

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license