The Legend of the Holy Drinker (film)
1988 Italian film
- 2 September 1988 (1988-09-02)
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France
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (Italian: La leggenda del santo bevitore) is a 1988 Italian film written and directed by Ermanno Olmi.
The film won the Golden Lion at the 45th Venice Film Festival.[1] It also won four David di Donatello Awards (for Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing) and two Silver Ribbons (for Best Director and Best Screenplay).[1] The film was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 61st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[2]
It is based on the 1939 novella of the same name by the Austrian novelist Joseph Roth.[3]
Plot
A drunken homeless man (Rutger Hauer) in Paris is lent 200 francs by a stranger as long as he promises to repay it to a local church when he can afford to; the film depicts the man's constant frustrations as he attempts to do so.
Cast
- Rutger Hauer as Andreas Kartack
- Sandrine Dumas as Gabby
- Dominique Pinon as Woitech
- Anthony Quayle as The Distinguished Gentleman
- Sophie Segalen as Karoline
- Cécile Paoli as Fur Store Seller
- Jean-Maurice Chanet as Daniel Kanjak
- Dalila Belatreche as Thérèse
References
External links
- The Legend of the Holy Drinker at IMDb
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Films directed by Ermanno Olmi
- Il Posto
- The Fiances
- A Man Named John
- One Fine Day
- The Circumstance
- The Tree of Wooden Clogs
- Walking, Walking
- The Legend of the Holy Drinker
- The Secret of the Old Woods
- Genesis: The Creation and the Flood
- The Profession of Arms
- Singing Behind Screens
- first section in Tickets
- One Hundred Nails
- The Cardboard Village
- Greenery Will Bloom Again
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