Le Streghe

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Le Streghe (aka Les Sorcieres; The Witches)
1966 - France/Italy

Hard-core Clint Eastwood or Dino De Laurentiis fans will definitely appreciate this truly bizarre film... well... maybe. One of De Laurentiis' more eclectic films, it was produced at the same time Eastwood was filming his three Spaghetti Westerns with Sergio Leone (Per un pugno di dollari, Per qualche dollaro in più, and Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo - respectively: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

The fact that two Hollywood greats worked on this film lends it an innocent credibility that should have seen it rise into cult film status... but unfortunately didn't.

Dan Pavlides, of All Movie Guide, had this to say...

This Dino De Laurentiis production from 1965 is actually an anthology of five different directors' work, each telling their own stories about witches. The five stories are "The Witch Burned Alive", "Civic Sense", "The Earth As Seen From The Moon", "The Girl From Sicily", and "A Night Like Any Other". Silvana Mangano appears in all five, with Clint Eastwood starring in the last featured vignette. Like many gang-directed projects, this film is also plagued by a lack of continuity and by the pretentiousness of the individual directors.

The film runs for 2 hours 1 minute, and features the following cast and crew.

Movie Cast
- Annie Girardot - Valeria ["The Witch Burned Alive"]
- Francisco Rabal - Valerie's Husband ["The Witch Burned Alive"]
- Massimo Girotti - Sportsman ["The Witch Burned Alive"]
- Elsa Albani - Gossip ["The Witch Burned Alive"]
- Silvana Mangano - Lady ["Civic Sense"], Assurda Cai ["The Earth As Seen From the Moon"], Nuncia ["The Girl From Sicily"], Giovanna ["A Night Like Any Other"]
- Alberto Sordi - Truck Driver ["Civic Sense"]
- Totò - Ciancicato Miao ["The Earth As Seen From the Moon"]
- Angelo Santi - Gordon ["A Night Like Any Other"]
- Piero Torrisi - Batman [Civic Sense]
- Luigi Leoni - Her Husband [The Earth As Seen From The Moon]
- Marilù Tolo - [The Witch Burned Alive]
- Pietro Tordi - Father [The Girl From Sicily]
- Veronique Vendell - Young Girlfriend [The Witch Burned Alive]
- Clint Eastwood - Husband [Civic Sense]
- Dino Mele - Waiter [The Witch Burned Alive]
- Franco Moruzzi - Sadik [Civic Sense]
- Helmut Berger - Waiter [The Witch Burned Alive]
- Laura Betti - A Tourist [The Earth As Seen From The Moon]
- Armando Bottin - Nembo Kid [Civic Sense]
- Clara Calamai
- Ninetto Davoli - Baciu Miao [The Earth As Seen From The Moon]
- Leslie French - Industrialist [The Witch Burned Alive]
- Gianni Gori - Diabolik [Civic Sense]
- Paolo Gozina - Diabolik
- Paolo Gozlino - Mandrake [Civic Sense]
- Valentino Macchi - Man in Stadium
Movie Crew
- Franco Rossi - Director, Screenwriter
- Luchino Visconti - Director
- Mauro Bolognini - Director
- Pier Paolo Pasolini - Director, Screenwriter
- Vittorio De Sica - Director
- Dino de Laurentiis - Producer
- Age - Screenwriter, Screen Story
- Bernardino Zapponi - Screenwriter, Screen Story
- Cesare Zavattini - Screenwriter, Screen Story
- Fabio Carpi - Screenwriter
- Furio Scarpelli - Screenwriter, Screen Story
- Giuseppe Patroni Griffi - Screenwriter, Screen Story
- Luigi Magni - Screenwriter
- Ennio Morricone - Composer (Music Score)
- Piero Piccioni - Composer (Music Score)
- Giuseppe Maccari - Cinematographer
- Giuseppe Rotunno - Cinematographer
- Alfredo de Laurentiis - Executive Producer
- Mario Garbuglia - Art Director
- Piero Poletto - Art Director
- Piero Tosi - Costume Designer
- Adriana Novelli - Editor
- Giorgio Serralonga - Editor
- Mario Serandrei - Editor
- Nino Baragli - Editor
- Renzo Marignano - First Assistant Director
- Goffredo Rocchetti - Makeup