Word: carabinieri
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They move fast when the carabinieri arrive. Shots fly, a policeman falls. The shepherd, sure he will be implicated and afraid his sheep will die if he is sent to jail, heads for the hills and runs his flock far back among the granite desolations. The police come after him with tommy guns, and after a forced march the sheep collapse and die. Ruined, the shepherd bitterly determines to ruin others. In the movie's savage final scene he comes down like a hungry wolf on a fold and steals an entire flock from a man as poor...
...Adelina, longest of the three short films assembled in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Sophia plays a local girl who makes good by selling butts on the black market. Grimly the carabinieri come to arrest her. Proudly Sophia points to her tummy. She is pregnant, and Italian law provides that a pregnant woman may not be imprisoned-and neither may a nursing mother...
Boing! A big idea explodes in Sophia's pretty little skull: if she wants to stay in business, she had better stay with child. Next time the carabinieri come, Sophia once more proudly points-and the next time and the next. In approximately seven years she has seven babies, but before she can make it eight her husband (Marcello Mastroianni) collapses in sexhaustion. "Goodbye," she bellows scornfully at poor Marcello as she is led away to prison. "Goodbye, you fairy...
...virtually everything and everybody in the chalet-bedecked villaggio had been swept away by water or entombed in mud. With pickaxes and shovels, soldiers dug fearfully into the muck, by week's end had unearthed 1,500 bodies. Of Longarone's peaceful populace of 3,500, the carabinieri feared that only a handful survived...
...quavering first-act cadenzas with unrestrained boos and whistles that served to unnerve both singers and musicians. The singers soon lost their pitch, and the boys in the orchestra joined them in helpless cacophony as the audience went wild in fury. Only the night sticks of the carabinieri induced peace after the melee, and everyone went home agreeing that it was a lousy evening-but viva Verdi, anyway...