Marcello Mastroianni
Ferdinando Cefalù
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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
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 ). It stars Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca ...
Unfortunately, Divorce Italian Style is the first and only Germi movie available on DVD in the U.S. (NoShame releases the earlier drama The Railroad Man in June). Though some of us have seen the comedies Germi made just after it (Seduced and The Birds, The Bees and the Italians), very, very few have seen any others.
- Pietro Germi, Renzo Marignano
- Marcello Mastroianni
Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member As a bizarre tribute to my mom on her 75th birthday and her 46-year-marriage to her only love, my father, who ...
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- Marcello Mastroianni
- Pietro Germi
- Comedy
Apr 25, 2005 · Suddenly, Mastroianni’s role in Divorce Italian Style acquires an invisible double. On the screen of the local movie theater, the cynical, sophisticated Roman journalist of La dolce vita chases (unseen) after Anita Ekberg, in sudden, stupid infatuation. At that same moment, Mastroianni’s Sicilian aristocrat—a would-be cynic and faux ...
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. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having ...
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Since divorce is illegal, he hatches a plan to lure his spouse into the arms of another and then murder her in a justifiable effort to save his honor. The Criterion Collection is proud to present director Pietro Germi’s hilarious and cutting satire of Sicilian male-chauvinist culture, winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
