Italy,
1972, 121 min
Directed by:
Lina WertmüllerScreenplay:
Lina WertmüllerCinematography:
Dario Di PalmaComposer:
Piero PiccioniCast:
Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Turi Ferro, Agostina Belli, Luigi Diberti, Gianfranco Barra, Gianni Pulone, Claudio Trionfi, Angelo CasadeiPlots(1)
Giancarlo Giannini (Love and Anarchy) gives a wonderfully comic performance as the sad sack Mimi, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote for the Mafia's candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife and his home. At rock bottom, he revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful, radical Fiorella (Mariangela Melato), with whom he starts a new life as a reliable husband and father. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor, an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences. (official distributor synopsis)
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