Marcello Mastroianni
Ferdinando Cefalù
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A 1961 Italian black comedy film about a Sicilian nobleman who plots to kill his wife and her lover. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and was included in the 100 Italian films to be saved.
Divorce Italian Style: Directed by Pietro Germi. With Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste. A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
- (14K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Pietro Germi
- 1962-09-17
A dark comedy about a Sicilian man who tries to kill his wife to divorce her and marry his cousin. Read the plot summary, critic ratings, and user reviews of this 1961 Oscar-winning film.
- (17)
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Pietro Germi
- Comedy
A deliciously black satire in the grandest tradition of Italy's commedia all'italiana, Divorce, Italian Style represented a new high point in director Pietro Germi's already storied career.
- 5 min
- 12.2K
- MIFF
A classic comedy film by Pietro Germi about a Sicilian baron who plots to kill his wife to marry his cousin. The DVD features interviews, essays, and rare footage of the cast and crew.
- Baron Ferdinando Cefalù
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Ferdinando Cefalù, an impoverished Sicilian nobleman, returns home to his once elegant family mansion. Bored to frustration by his nagging wife, Rosalia, he falls in love with his 16-year-old cousin, Angela. Since divorce is impossible under Italian law, he resigns himself to imagining different ways of doing away with his plump, mustached wife.
A Sicilian baron tries to kill his wife to marry his cousin, but his plan backfires in this comedy of errors. IMDb provides two plot summaries, cast and crew information, user reviews, trivia, and FAQ for this classic film.
