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Divorce, Italian Style

Divorce Italian Style
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Directed by Pietro Germi
Produced by Franco Cristaldi
Written by Ennio De Concini
Pietro Germi
Alfredo Giannetti
Agenore Incrocci (uncredited)
Starring Marcello Mastroianni
Daniela Rocca
Stefania Sandrelli
Leopoldo Trieste
Odoardo Spadaro
Music by Carlo Rustichelli
Cinematography Carlo Di Palma
Leonida Barboni
Edited by Roberto Cinquini
Distributed by Embassy Pictures
Release date
1961
Running time
108 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

Divorce Italian Style (Italian: Divorzio all'italiana) is a 1961 Italian comedy film directed by Pietro Germi. The screenplay was written by Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti, and Agenore Incrocci; based on the novel Un delitto d'onore (Honour Killing) by Giovanni Arpino. It stars Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Lando Buzzanca, and Leopoldo Trieste. The movie won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen; Mastroianni was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Marcello Mastroianni) and Germi for Best Director.

Ferdinando Cefalù (Marcello Mastroianni), an impoverished Sicilian nobleman, is married to Rosalia (Daniela Rocca), an unattractive but devoted wife. However, he is in love with his cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli), a much younger and attractive woman whom he sees only during the summer because her family sends her away to the city to a nunnery to receive her education. Besides his wife, he shares his life with his elderly parents and his spinster sister and her boyfriend who runs a funeral business; the family share their once stately palace with his uncles, who are slowly but surely eating away the remainders of the then rich estate of the Baron.


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