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Slap the Monster on Page One (Italian: Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina) is a 1972 Italian drama film directed by Marco Bellocchio.

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Slap the Monster on Page One
Directed by	Marco Bellocchio
Written by	Sergio Donati Goffredo Fofi
Produced by	Ugo Tucci
Starring	Gian Maria Volonté Corrado Solari Laura Betti Fabio Garriba
Cinematography	Erico Menczer
Music by	Nicola Piovani
Release date	19 October 1972
Running time	93 min.
Language	Italian

It depicts the daily life of a fictitious Italian daily newspaper, Il Giornale (The Journal). The newspaper caters to a conservative, fascist, bourgeois readership, and its chief-editor Bizanti tries in all manners to give a right-wing slant even to the most trivial news items, while at the same time sweetening and desensitizing the thornier issues, such as unemployment and police brutality. The whole editorial staff is thrown in a tantrum when a young girl is found raped and killed, going as far as soliciting nostalgia for the death penalty (capital punishment was abolished in Italy in the wake of the fall of Italian Fascism) and to actually derail the investigation, leading the police to a false culprit: a young left-wing student, who becomes the 'ideal' scapegoat for the newspaper's prejudiced readership. The movie, a searing J'Accuse…! on the perils of press manipulation, closes with no happy ending in sight, with public opinion totally mesmerized by Bizanti and his cronies for the satisfaction of their backers and financers.

Two years after the movie's distribution, a right-wing newspaper called Il Giornale was actually started in Italy by Indro Montanelli.

Cast

• Gian Maria Volonté as Bizanti
• Laura Betti as Rita Zigai
• Fabio Garriba as Roveda
• John Steiner as Montelli
• Corrado Solari as Mario Boni
• Jacques Herlin as Lauri
• Carla Tatò as Bizanti's Wife
• Marco Bellocchio
• Michel Bardinet as Vanzina
• Jean Rougeul
• Gianni Solaro
• Enrico DiMarco
• Silvia Kramar
• Massimo Patrone as the real killer
• Luigi Antonio Guerra

External links

• Slap the Monster on Page One at IMDb
• Slap the Monster on Page One at Rotten Tomatoes

На других языках

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- [en] Slap the Monster on Page One

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[ru] Об убийстве — на первую полосу

«Об убийстве — на первую полосу» (итал. Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina) — кинофильм режиссёра Марко Беллоккьо, вышедший на экраны в 1972 году.

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