Augusto Tretti

Augusto Tretti

1924-06-19
88 (2013-06-07)
Verona, Italy

Augusto Tretti was born in 1924 in Verona, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Alcool (1980), La legge della tromba (1962) and Il potere (1971). He died on 7 July 2013 in Verona, Veneto, Italy.

Verona, Italy

Augusto Tretti was born in 1924 in Verona, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Alcool (1980), La legge della tromba (1962) and Il potere (1971). He died on 7 July 2013 in Verona, Veneto, Italy.

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The Law of the Trumpet 1962 (6.5)

After a failed attempt of holdup, Celestino and its friends end in prison. They return to freedom with an amnesty, and they try to find a job. They find a job in the factory of trumpets of professor Liborio; here Celestino meets Marta and falls in love with her, but Liborio, heard that the father of the girl possesses the world only mine of brass in Latin America, seduces and marry her. He then closes the factory of trumpets and moves abroad in order to take advantage of the mine of his now father-in-law. Celestino,bitter with disillusionment, finds another job in one factory of space rockets. One day, testing a rocket, he's propelled in the sky ending up on a tree. Is he allright? "It's the system: it doesn't work"
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Alcool 1980

A satirical and naif view of alcool use and abuse in Northern Italy at the end of 70s.
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Power 1972

Titled Power, Tretti's sophomore film was a sort of Mel Brooks' History of the World, in which Tretti explored the history of mankind from one precise point of view: how the powerful ruled over the weak. A man confused as the God of Fire in prehistory; Jesus and Muhammad deciding who must eat what and when because of a power no one has seen; Tiberius Gracchus killed by the senate because he was fighting for the people. Tretti had a bullet for everyone. He loved to unmask those who claimed to be on the side of the less fortunate, showing the three powers - military, commercial and agricultural - sitting on three thrones and chatting on how they can suck life out of men and keep power tight in their hands.