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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).
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.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Pietro Germi
- 1962-09-17
Carmelo. Odoardo Spadaro. Don Gaetano. Watchlist. Page 1 of 2, 6 total items. Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. Ferdinando Cefalù (Marcello Mastroianni) is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela...
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- Marcello Mastroianni
- Pietro Germi
- Comedy
Apr 25, 2005 · But Divorce Italian Style is novel not only because it is Italian, and so the specifics of its satire differ from the Anglo-Saxon, but above all because it was Germi’s first comedy. What had he been waiting for?
Baron Ferdinando Cefalù (Marcello Mastroianni) longs to marry his nubile young cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli), but one obstacle stands in his way: his fatuous and fawning wife, Rosalia (Daniela Rocca).
- Baron Ferdinando Cefalù
Oct 15, 2013 · Divorce, Italian Style was his first international success, winning an Oscar for its screenplay. He was fortunate to get Marcello Mastroianni (who was nominated for an Oscar for this role, though he never won one), fresh from his worldwide acclaim for Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (which the Sicilian villagers in Germi’s film ...
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 an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman.
