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Seduced and Abandoned

Seduced and Abandoned
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Directed by Pietro Germi
Produced by Franco Cristaldi
Luigi Giacosi
Written by Pietro Germi
Agenore Incrocci
Furio Scarpelli
Luciano Vincenzoni
Starring Stefania Sandrelli
Saro Urzì
Aldo Puglisi
Lando Buzzanca
Lola Braccini
Cinematography Aiace Parolin
Distributed by Continental Distributing Inc.
Release date
15 July 1964
(French release)
Running time
115 min
Language Italian

Seduced and Abandoned (Italian: Sedotta e abbandonata) is an 1964 Italian film directed by Pietro Germi. It was entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival.

The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily, as did Germi's previous film Divorce, Italian Style. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiance, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father. Vincenzo immediately demands that the man, Peppino Califano, marry his daughter, and antics ensue. The film is a dark satire of Sicilian social customs and honor laws, and is very similar to Divorce, Italian Style.

These Sicilian customs, including a form of bride kidnapping or elopement known as fuitina and the following "rehabilitating marriage" (matrimonio riparatore), were brought to national attention in 1966 by the case of Franca Viola. Her story was turned into the 1970 film, La moglie più bella (The Most Beautiful Wife) by Damiano Damiani and starring Ornella Muti.



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