The Bishop's Bedroom
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| Directed by | Dino Risi |
| Written by | Leo Benvenuti |
| Story by | Piero Chiara |
| Starring |
Ugo Tognazzi Ornella Muti Patrick Dewaere |
| Music by |
Glenn Miller Parish Armando Trovajoli |
| Cinematography | Franco Di Giacomo |
| Edited by | Alberto Gallitti |
| Distributed by | Titanus Produzione |
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Release date
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March 18, 1977 (Italy) 14 September 1977 (France) |
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Running time
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c. 110 min. |
| Country |
Italy France |
| Language | Italian |
The Bishop's Bedroom (Italian: La stanza del vescovo) is an Italian thriller-drama film directed by Dino Risi adapted from the novel of the same name by Piero Chiara. It stars Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti and Patrick Dewaere. Supporting actors include Lia Tanzi and Piero Mazzarella.
Lake Maggiore provides a beautiful and evocative backdrop to the action: the central events of the film take place around Bavenoas opposed to Oggebbioin the novel.
The movie is set in the immediate aftermath of World War II, in the lakeside region of northern Italy, close to the Swiss border; during the last phase of the conflict many affluent inhabitants of Milan evacuated the city to avoid the aerial bombings and the ravages of war, taking residence in the placid lake countryside.
Marco Maffei, Patrick Dewaere, a young man who fled to Switzerland to avoid being drafted, returns to the Italian shores at the helm of a small boat named "Tinca". Well-off albeit not exactly rich, he knows sooner or later he'll have to find a stable job, but still can't resolve to abandon the idle life he has led so far.
Marco meets an odd, quirky man named Temistocle Mario Orimbelli (Ugo Tognazzi), a womanizing liar who has led a colorful life, being involved in the Italian-Abyssinian War of 1935-36, and later following the advancing Allied armies from Napoli to Milan, finally settling as the husband of Cleofe Berlusconi, an aging, rich woman, who resents his laziness and his weakness of character.
Orimbelli invites Marco to dinner where he meets his wife and his sister-in-law, Matilde (Ornella Muti) with whom the young man becomes instantly smitten before spending the night in the "Bishop's Room" (where a relative of Cleofe, rumored to be a homosexual clergyman, used to spend his summer vacations before being found drowned in a bay of the nearby lake).
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