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- Filumena reveals her reason for wanting to be Domenico's wife: she wants him to legitimise her three sons (Umberto, Michele and Riccardo) who have grown up in foster care and have no idea of who their mother is.
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Filumena reveals her reason for wanting to be Domenico's wife: she wants him to legitimise her three sons (Umberto, Michele and Riccardo) who have grown up in foster care and have no idea of who their mother is. Domenico is not going to have any of this and briefs his lawyer Nocella to have the marriage declared null and void.
Jan 12, 2018 · Marriage Italian Style tells the story of Filumena (Sophia Loren), a prostitute, and her decades long relationship as the mistress of a wealthy Neopolitan business man named Domenico (Marcello Mastroianni). The film opens with Filumena on her deathbed requesting that the wily Domenico marry her before she passes away.
Nov 22, 2023 · Why her obsession with marrying Domenico? And why had he been avoiding marriage for 25 years? This is a comedy of tangles, secrets and twisted intentions. Filumena is the protagonist of a life journey that has led her to deceive, steal and take advantage of Domenico, who has always been swimming in opulence.
But Filumena reveals the real reason for the marriage: she did it for the three children she had borne (Umberto, Riccardo, and Michele). As the children were coming of age, she wanted them to have Domenico's family name. Domenico won't accept this and decides to contest the marriage.
With Titina De Filippo, Eduardo De Filippo, Tamara Lees, Tina Pica. Filumena, an ex-prostitute and for decades Domenico Soriano's lover, discovers that he intends to get married and so pretends to be on the verge of death in order to get him to marry her instead.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Eduardo De Filippo
- 1951-11-15
Once married, Filumena gets up from bed fresh as a daisy, and that’s the exact moment when the show begins. What’s the reason why Filumena has orchestrated such a charade? Why is she so obsessed with marrying Domenico? And, what about him? Why has he been running away from marriage for 25 years?
May 14, 2024 · Filumena is Eduardo de Filippo's best-known work and arguably his finest comedy, drenched in Neapolitan atmosphere and full of entanglements at once romantic and cynical.Set in the balmy heat of late 1940s Naples, Filumena Marturano lies on her deathbed waiting to marry Domenico Soriano, the man who has kept her as his mistress for twenty-five years.
