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Theorem

Original title: Teorema

There are only 923 words spoken in "Teorema" – but it says everything!

1968 · NR · 1h 35m

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

7.0

TMDB audience score
465 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.

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Cast

  • Terence Stamp
    The Visitor

  • Silvana Mangano
    Lucia, the Mother

  • Massimo Girotti
    Paolo, the Father

  • Anne Wiazemsky
    Odetta, the Daughter

  • Andrés José Cruz Soublette
    Pietro, the Son

  • Laura Betti
    Emilia, the Servant

  • Ninetto Davoli
    Angelino, the Messenger

  • Carlo De Mejo
    Lucia's first lover

  • Adele Cambria
    Emilia, the Second Servant

  • Luigi Barbini
    Boy at the station

  • Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia
    Lucia's second lover

  • Alfonso Gatto
    Doctor

  • Cesare Garboli
    Interviewer (uncredited)

  • Susanna Pasolini
    Old Peasant (uncredited)