Mortacci


Mortacci is a 1989 Italian dark comedy film directed by Sergio Citti.

Plot summary

In a small town cemetery, the deceased every night host a meeting. They are doomed not to enter the next stage of the afterlife, till the last living human who remembers them passes away. Through the recollection of their lives and deaths, the different characters are introduced: Alma, a theater actress who witnesses every night the futile attempt of her ex lover to commit suicide over her grave; Angelo, a womanizer who died out of shame; Felice and Giggetto, two beggars who soon leave the group as the last woman who remembers them dies while visiting their grave. The narration is interrupted by the arrival of Lucillo, a soldier who was presumed dead in a military mission in Lebanon and who is forced by his fellow villagers to die for real, as they built a huge business on his hero status and fame. The cemetery warden Domenico supervises all the operations, from opening the gates to stealing valuables from the dead, without knowing that the deceased see him and everything that happens in the small cemetery.

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