Pasqualino Frafuso
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Seven Beauties (Italian: Pasqualino Settebellezze, "Pasqualino Sevenbeauties") is a 1975 historical black comedy drama Italian film written and directed by Lina Wertmüller and starring Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, and Shirley Stoler.
Jan 21, 1976 · Seven Beauties: Directed by Lina Wertmüller. With Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore. The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
- (6.5K)
- Comedy, Drama, War
- Lina Wertmüller
- 1976-01-21
Seven Beauties. In 1930s Italy, Pasqualino (Giancarlo Giannini), a low-level Sicilian thug, kills a man who disgraced his sister. Pasqualino pleads insanity and manages to escape imprisonment by...
- (19)
- Lina Wertmüller
- R
- Giancarlo Giannini
Oct 4, 2022 · Seven Beauties is more than a masterpiece of ‘70s filmmaking; it’s an exceptional portrait of the grotesque that exists in every society. It is an enduring work about despair and desperation, and the people who cannot get to the other side—“the ones who are in garbage up to here,” as the film’s opening manifesto states.
Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as “Pasqualino Seven Beauties” is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault.
- (7.8K)
- Medusa Distribuzione
- Lina Wertmüller
In lengthy flashbacks, we see him and his family of seven unattractive sisters (the seven beauties), his accidental murder of one sister's lover, his confession and imprisonment, his calculated switch to an asylum, his rape of a patient, and his volunteering to be a soldier to escape confinement.
Nominated for four Academy Awards, including best director, SEVEN BEAUTIES stars Giancarlo Giannini as Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as “Pasqualino Seven Beauties.” A petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to ...
