Divorzio all’Italiana
Divorce Italian Style movie storyline. Baron Ferdinando Cefalù is a Sicilian nobleman bored of life and of his wife Rosalia: he falls in love with his beautiful young cousin Angela, who spends summers in the same palace. Since divorce is impossible in 1960s Italy, he decides to kill his wife, knowing that sentence would be very light if he proved that he committed murder for a matter of honour, such as finding her with another man. Therefore, he sets her up with painter Carmelo Patané, a painter well-known to her.
Divorce Italian Style (Italian: Divorzio all’Italiana) is a 1961 Italian dark 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 (Honour Killing). It stars Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Lando Buzzanca, and Leopoldo Trieste.
It 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 and Germi for Best Director. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that “have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978.
Divorce Italian Style (1961)
Directed by: Pietro Germi
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste, Odoardo Spadaro, Margherita Girelli, Angela Cardile, Lando Buzzanca, Pietro Tordi, Bianca Castagnetta
Screenplay by: Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti, Agenore Incrocci
Production Design by: Carlo Egidi
Cinematography by: Leonida Barboni, Carlo Di Palma
Film Editing by: Roberto Cinquini
Costume Design by: Dina Di Bari
Set Decoration by: Sergio Canevari
Art Direction by:
Music by: Carlo Rustichelli
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Embassy Pictures
Release Date: December 20, 1961
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