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The Law (Italian: La legge, French: La Loi and originally released in America as Where the Hot Wind Blows) is a 1959 French-Italian film directed by Jules Dassin. [2]
The Law (Italian: La legge, French: La Loi and originally released in America as Where the Hot Wind Blows) is a 1959 French-Italian film directed by Jules Da...
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Marietta, servant of aristocrat Don Cesare, is the bellezza of an Italian town where men gather nightly in the tavern for the 'game of the Law,' selecting one by lot to boss and humiliate the others.
Based upon a novel by Frenchman Roger Vailland, The Law — co-adapted and directed by Jules Dassin — reflects the writer's themes of class struggle and individual cynicism, as well as a bit of his personal, joyful inclination toward hedonism.
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The Law. 1959 · 2 hr 2 min. TV-MA. Drama. A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game. Starring: Gina Lollobrigida Pierre Brasseur Marcello Mastroianni. Directed by: Jules Dassin.
- Jules Dassin
- January 1, 1959
The Law, a French-Italian co-production released in Europe in 1959, might have tipped into either category. Based on a novel by Roger Vailland that won the Prix Goncourt in 1957, the film is a sweeping social allegory set in a fishing village on the coast of Puglia—a version of the primordial, elemental Italy familiar to filmgoers from ...
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Synopsis. Marietta, servant of aristocrat Don Cesare, is the bellezza of an Italian town where men gather nightly in the tavern for the 'game of the Law,' selecting one by lot to boss and humiliate the others.
