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Divorce Italian Style (Italian: Divorzio all'italiana) is a 1961 Italian black comedy film directed by Pietro Germi. The screenplay is by Germi, Ennio De Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, and Agenore Incrocci, based on Giovanni Arpino's novel Un delitto d'onore (English title A Crime of Honor).
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
Ferdinando Cefalù (Marcello Mastroianni) is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela (Stefania Sandrelli), but he is married to Rosalia (Daniela Rocca) and divorce is illegal in Italy.
- (17)
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Pietro Germi
- Comedy
One doesn't usually expect a film about infidelity, divorce and murder to be a comedy but that's one reason Divorce, Italian Style, directed by Pietro Germi, became an unexpected international hit in 1962. A caustic satire about the Italian male - or more specifically, Sicily's male dominated culture - the film also poked fun at Italy's ...
- Pietro Germi, Renzo Marignano
- Marcello Mastroianni
Divorce Italian Style. Baron Ferdinando Cefalù (Marcello Mastroianni) longs to marry his nubile young cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli), but one obstacle stands in his way: his fatuous and fawning wife, Rosalia (Daniela Rocca). His solution?
- Baron Ferdinando Cefalù
Jan 23, 2017 · Based on the 1960 novel Un delitto d’onore (Honour Killing) by Giovanni Arpino, Divorce Italian Style magnifies through comedy the problematic hypocrisies of heterosexual relations in postwar Italy. Perhaps affected by the repressive heat and the torpor of his days, Fefè decides to take action.
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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. Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy.
