Living Off Love

Living Off Love

1984
1h 25m
5.0

5.0/10

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Overview

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.

Status: Released

Language: IT

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Production Information

Production Countries
Germany Switzerland
Spoken Languages
Italian

Quick Facts

Original Title Er Moretto – Von Liebe leben
Release Date August 8, 1984
Status Released
Language IT
IMDb ID tt0089094

Cast

Alevino Di Silvio
Alevino Di Silvio

Franco

Franco Mazzieri
Franco Mazzieri

Vampir

Vinicio Diamanti
Vinicio Diamanti

Tunte

Ciro Cascina
Ciro Cascina

Schamane

Rosa Di Brigida
Rosa Di Brigida

Verrückte

Irene Staub
Irene Staub

Anita Ekberg

Renato Faillaci
Renato Faillaci

Transvestite

Francesco Gnerre
Francesco Gnerre

Renato

Lara Toljacian
Lara Toljacian

Vocalist

Key Crew

Simon Bischoff
Writer
Simon Bischoff
Producer
Simon Bischoff
Director