Theorem

Overview

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Top cast

Terence Stamp

The Visitor

Silvana Mangano

Lucia, the Mother

Massimo Girotti

Paolo, the Father

Anne Wiazemsky

Odetta, the Daughter

Andrés José Cruz Soublette

Pietro, the Son

Laura Betti

Emilia, the Servant

Ninetto Davoli

Angelino, the Messenger

Carlo De Mejo

Lucia's first lover

A

Adele Cambria

Emilia, the Second Servant

L

Luigi Barbini

Boy at the station

Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia

Lucia's second lover

A

Alfonso Gatto

Doctor

C

Cesare Garboli

Interviewer (uncredited)

S

Susanna Pasolini

Old Peasant (uncredited)

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