Living Off Love (1984)
Synopsis
The exploitation of young men as prostitutes in the district around the Roman coliseum is the focus of Simon Bischoff's documentary and fiction piece that spares no close-up view of male anatomy. This latter trait reveals just as much about the tenor of this film as it does about the body. Several years earlier, Bischoff met the main 17-year-old protagonist here, "Er Moretto," when he was just a 13-year-old runaway. The intervening years show how he changed into a streetwise vendor of sex, and Bischoff also details how the 17-year-old is picked up by a middle-aged man to be his companion. Fiction segments do not fare as well as the documentary aspects of this work, which in the end, seems at least ambiguous, if not questionable, in its intent.
Release Date: 1984-08-08
Runtime: 85 minutes
Director: Simon Bischoff
Top Cast
- Alevino Di Silvio as Franco
- Franco Mazzieri as Vampir
- Vinicio Diamanti as Tunte
- Ciro Cascina as Schamane
- Rosa Di Brigida as Verrückte
- Irene Staub as Anita Ekberg
- Renato Faillaci as Transvestite
- Francesco Gnerre as Renato
- Lara Toljacian as Vocalist
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