The Five Days 4K 1973 ITALIAN Ultra HD 2160p

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The film is set in the 19th century (1848) during the struggle of the Italian patriotic forces against Austrian rule. An accidental shell penetrates the prison wall, which the thief and bandit Cainazzo manages to take advantage of. While he was in prison, Italy was transformed into a testing ground for political strife and battles. Understanding nothing about politics, which he doesn't care about, Cainazzo has a series of funny but often terrifying adventures with Romolo, the baker from Rome, whose bakery was destroyed by a shell.

Review 4K Movie

The Five Days as has been pointed out is an atypical Dario Argento: a lighthearted take on the politics of Italy in the year, tumultuous across Europe, of 1848, with the conflicting interests shown of Northern Italian rebels,Austrian occupiers, and the Pope,to name just three.It is also a buddy film as the two main characters, an escaped convict and a baker, land up bonding through a series of violent but comic episodes.Highlights include a silent style slapstick scene in which the two, naive about a woman's body, try to help with a childbirth; an argument over what a dying hero's last words were which turns physical; and especially a tryst with the blonde widow of a recently hung traitor, who gets sexually excited as the baker describes different kinds of bread.The convict has been looking all through the story for an elusive friend Zampino, who is supposedly a hero nicknamed Liberty but is actually double-crossing the rebels and working for the Austrians. The leader of one band of rebels, called "Duce,"a name which has an obvious connotation, is thrown down a flight of stairs when the baker tries to stop him from raping a woman who had sex with an Austrian.The convict's words at the end, as he ventures to speak before a crowd gathered to celebrate a victory, the new bigwigs pompously dressed up, are "We've been tricked." Some may see in this irony and cynicism Argento and his co-writers' critique of a similar wave of radical politics that swept through Europe- and elsewhere- just 5 years before the movie, in 1968. In any event the work invites interesting comparisons with the historical/war comedies of Mario Monicelli (The Great War, L'Armata Brancaleone) the sexual politics of Lina Wertmuller, and even the more serious historical epics of Luchino Visconti (Senso) rather than the horror genre in which Argento is usually pigeonholed.