Fists in the Pocket

(1965)

★ 7.8 IMDb · 229 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1965

Runtime: 105 мин

Country: Italy

Director: Marco Bellocchio

Cast: Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace, Pier Luigi Troglio, Jeannie McNeil, Irene Agnelli, Sandra Bergamini, Celestina Bellocchio, Lella Bertante

Plot

A deeply disturbed and epileptic young man benignly decides to murder other members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.

Alessandro, a young epileptic with paranoid inclinations, decides to relieve Augusto, the only sound brother, from the burden of a numerous family plagued with hereditary diseases. After a first aborted attempt, the dreadful series of accidents/murders is started by pushing the blind mother into a ravine. Then comes the turn of Leone, the idiotic brother. Will Alessandro be able to bring to completion his obsessive project ?