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Divorce, Italian Style

Divorzio all'italiana

1961

Pietro Germi

Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste ...

7.4

3,154

Comedy Baron Fefé Cefalù is a Sicilian nobleman bored of life and of wife Rosalia: he falls in love with young and beautiful cousin Angela, who spends summers in the same palace. Since divorce is impossible in Italy in the 1960s, he decides to kill the wife, knowing that sentence would be very light if he proved that he committed murder for a matter of honour, i.e. when he found the wife together with another man. Therefore, he starts finding ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Skillfully written, with a penetrating, almost brutal glimpse of Sicily and its antiquated way of life, it has been directed by Pietro Germi with lagless pace and consistent incisiveness"	POS

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