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FILM CLASSIC
Seven Beauties / Pasqualino Settebellezze
DIRECTOR: Lina Wertmüller
IN MEMORIAM LINA WERTMÜLLER
COUNTRY: Italija
YEAR / DURATION: 1975 • 116’
GENRE: comedy, drama, war
Info
- SCREENWRITER: Lina Wertmüller
- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tonino Delli Colli
- EDITOR: Franco Fraticelli
- SCORE: Enzo Jannacci
- ACTORS: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore, Piero Di Iorio, Enzo Vitale, Roberto Herlitzka, Lucio Amelio, Ermelinda De Felice, Bianca D’Origlia
- PRODUCERS: Arrigo Colombo, Lina Wertmüller
- COMPANY: Medusa Distribuzione
- DISTRIBUTION/ SALES AGENT: CSC – Cineteca Nazionale
- FESTIVALS AND AWARDS: Academy Award nomination for Best International Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Actor, Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film
Trailer
–Synopsis
Pasqualino is a deft and sly loverboy and bum from Naples, who has seven sisters. He discovers that the husband of one of his sisters has talked her into prostitution, Pasqualino defends his family’s honour and kills the pimp, which land him in jail. When World War II breaks out, he joins the Italian army, but soon deserts and is captured by the Germans and taken to a concentration camp. To save his life, Pasqualino decides to seduce the camp commandant. However, this brings on the responsibility of selecting six men to be killed under the threat of being killed himself if he refuses.
About the director
Lina Wertmüller(Rome, 1928 – Rome, 2021), film director and screenwriter, known for her dark comedies. She graduated from the Silvio d’Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art in Rome. She was the first woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director with her film Seven Beauties. Select filmography: The Seduction of Mimi (1972), Love and Anarchy (1974), Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August (1974).
Screening
- Valli Cinema – 22.07.2022
17:00
FREE ENTRANCE
