CinemaOSMovie · 1984 · 1h 25m

Living Off Love

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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.

Directed bySimon Bischoff

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 25m
Language
IT
Released
August 8, 1984

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Er Moretto (Von Liebe leben, 1985) di Simon Bischoff - Trailer by www.caina.it

Er Moretto (Von Liebe leben, 1985) di Simon Bischoff - Trailer by www.caina.it

Featuring

Cast & crew

9 credited
Starring

Alevino Di Silvio

Franco

Franco Mazzieri

Franco Mazzieri

Vampir

Vinicio Diamanti

Vinicio Diamanti

Tunte

Ciro Cascina

Schamane

Rosa Di Brigida

Rosa Di Brigida

Verrückte

Irene Staub

Irene Staub

Anita Ekberg

Renato Faillaci

Transvestite

Francesco Gnerre

Renato

Lara Toljacian

Vocalist

Creative team
Directed by
Simon Bischoff
Written by
Simon Bischoff
Produced by
Simon Bischoff

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