The WitchesIn the mid-sixties, famed producer Dino De Laurentiis brought together the talents of fivecelebrated Italian directors for an anthology film. Their brief was simple: to direct anepisode in which Silvana Mangano (Bitter Rice, Ludwig) plays a witch.Luchino Visconti (Ossessione, Death in Venice) and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini(Bicycle Thieves) open the film with The Witch Burned Alive, about a famous actress anda drunken evening that leads to unpleasant revelations. Civic Sense is a lightly comicinterlude from Mauro Bolognini (The Lady of the Camelias) with a dark conclusion, andThe Earth as Seen from the Moon sees Italian comedy legend Totò team up with PierPaolo Pasolini (Theorem) for the first time for a tale of matrimony and a red-headedfather and son.Franco Rosso (The Woman in the Painting) concocts a story of revengein The Sicilian s Wife, while Vittorio De Sica (Shoeshine) casts Clint Eastwood asMangano s estranged husband in An Evening Like the Others, concluding The