Living Off Love

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Alevino Di Silvio

Alevino Di SilvioFranco

Franco MazzieriVampir

Vinicio DiamantiTunte

Ciro Cascina

Ciro CascinaSchamane

Rosa Di BrigidaVerrückte

Irene StaubAnita Ekberg

Renato Faillaci

Renato FaillaciTransvestite

Francesco Gnerre

Francesco GnerreRenato

Lara Toljacian

Lara ToljacianVocalist