Anno di produzione: 1971

Stato del film: Catalogo

Paese d'origine: UK
Location del set: Shenley Lodge, Shenley, Hertfordshire, England, UK Thamesmead South Estate, London, England, UK Joyden's Wood, Bexley, Kent, England, UK Festival Embankment, London, England, UK Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, UK Aylesbury, England, UK
Versioni alternative: - A new special edition, which restores about 90 seconds of violent footage removed from most prints, was scheduled to be released on video in 1996. - In 1973, a new version of "A Clockwork Orange" was released to theaters with an MPAA rating of "R", replacing the previous "X". The new version contained approximately 31 seconds of _replacement_, less lascivious footage for two scenes: the high speed (2 frames/sec) orgy in Alex's bedroom, and the Ludovico rape scene.
Genere: Crime Drama Sci-Fi
Lingue: English
Plot: In a futuristic Britain, a gang of teenagers go on the rampage every night, beating and raping helpless victims. After one of the boys quells an uprising in the gang, they knock him out and leave him for the police to find. He agrees to try "aversion therapy" to shorten his jail sentence. When he is eventually let out, he hates violence, but the rest of his gang members are still after him. Alex, a teenage hooligan in a near-future Britain, gets jailed by the police. There he volunteers as guinea pig for a new aversion therapy proposed by the government to make room in prisons for political prisoners. "Cured" of his hooliganism and released, he is rejected by his friends and relatives. Eventually nearly dying, he becomes a major embarrassment for the government, who arrange to cure him of his cure. A pivotal moment is when he and his gang break into an author's home: the book he is writing (called "A Clockwork Orange") is a plea against the use of aversion therapy, on the grounds that it turns people into Clockwork Oranges (Ourang is Malay for "Man"): they are not being good from choice (sentiments later echoed by the prison chaplain). The film reflects this: many bad scenes in a Clockwork Orange are accompanied by jolly music; if we are to experience them as we should, we have to do it consciously, by realising they are bad, and not because the director tells us so through the use of music and images. Alex, a violent juvenile in the near future, is caught after a number of brutal rapes and murders. While imprisoned, he submits to a controversial experiment to make criminals ill at the mildest suggestion of violence or conflict. Now Alex's victims want to welcome him back into society with the same enthusiasm Alex had always exhibited when performing his crimes.
Colonna sonora: - "Title Music From A Clockwork Orange" (from Henry Purcell's Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary) Composed by Walter Carlos and Rachel Elkind Performed by Walter Carlos Courtesy of CBS Records - "The Thieving Magpie (Abridged)" Composed by 'Gioacchino Rossini' (qv) - "Theme from A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana)" Composed by Walter Carlos and Rachel Elkind Performed by Walter Carlos Courtesy of CBS Records - "9th Symphony, Second Movement-Abridged" Composed by 'Ludwig Van Beethoven' (qv) - "March from A Clockwork Orange (9th Symphony, Fourth Movement-Abridged)" Composed by 'Ludwig Van Beethoven' (qv) Arranged and Performed by Walter Carlos Articulations by Rachel Elkind Courtesy of CBS Records - "William Tell Overture-Abridged" Composed by 'Gioacchino Rossini' (qv) Performed by Walter Carlos - "Pomp and Circumstance March No. I" Composed by Sir Edward Elgar - "Pomp and Circumstance March No. IV-Abridged" Composed by Sir Edward Elgar - "Timesteps (Excerpt)" Composed by Walter Carlos Performed by Walter Carlos Courtesy of CBS Records - "Overture to the Sun" Composed by Terry Tucker - "I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper" Written by Erika Eigen Performed by Erika Eigen - "William Tell Overture-Abridged" Composed by 'Gioacchino Rossini' (qv) - "Suicide Scherzo (9th Symphony, Second Movement-Abridged)" Composed by 'Ludwig Van Beethoven' (qv) Arranged and Performed by Walter Carlos Courtesy of CBS Records - "9th Symphony, Fourth Movement-Abridged" Composed by 'Ludwig Van Beethoven' (qv) - "Singin' In the Rain" Written by 'Arthur Freed' (qv) and 'Nacio Herb Brown' (qv) Performed by 'Gene Kelly' (qv) Courtesy of MGM Records - "Funeral Music for Queen Mary" By 'Henry Purcell' (qv) - Soundtrack available on Warner Brothers Compact Discs.
Visti censura internazionale: Chile:18 Mexico:C Italy:VM18 Italy:VM14 Finland:K-18 Netherlands:16 Sweden:15 Norway:18 Australia:R Germany:18 USA:X UK:18 France:-16 USA:R Ireland:18
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