Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society.Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society.Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society.
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- 2 wins
Helmut Berger
- Hotel Page (segment "La Strega Bruciata Viva")
- (as Helmut Steinbergher)
Ninetto Davoli
- Baciu Miao (segment "La terra vista dalla luna")
- (as Nenetto Davoli)
- Directors
- Mauro Bolognini(segment Senso civico)
- Vittorio De Sica(segment Sera come le altre, Una)
- Pier Paolo Pasolini(segment Terra vista dalla luna, La)
- Writers
- Giuseppe Patroni Griffi(segment Strega bruciata viva, La)
- Cesare Zavattini(segment Strega bruciata viva, La)
- Agenore Incrocci(segment Senso civico)
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- TriviaClint Eastwood was given the choice of taking $25,000 in cash or $20,000 and a new Ferrari by Producer Dino De Laurentiis to play a small part in this movie. He chose the money and the Ferrari. He got along well with Silvana Mangano and Director Vittorio De Sica.
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Industrialist: I make a perfume. But I can't make it any better or it would destabilise the market.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Sunday Night: Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti (1966)
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worth at least one watch, though, I guess
A film made up of five short films of varying length. Not your average portmanteau enterprise though because there is no link between the various works except that they all star the producer Dino De Laurentiiis' wife, Silvana Mangano and all feature a witch, except they don't, 'b****' more like. A promotional reel of some ten minutes would give the impression of something quite wonderful because within this saga of just under two hours there are some fine shots and marvellously evocative visuals so evocative of the times. A roll call of the directors involved is also impressive, Visconti, Bolognini, Pasolini, Rossi and De Sica but the individual pieces and the overall effect of chucking them all together, not to mention the desperate attempts to get us to laugh, tend to make this a rather painful experience overall. Very much a part of the 'Commedia all'italiana' genre, loved in Italy and France but of nil impact in the UK it features two of the most famous comedians of the time, Toto and the aforementioned Mauro Bolognini. Toto appears in the most irritating but also most memorable segment, that of Pasolini, which is a black comedy saturated in primary colours. The closing section from Vittorio De Sica probably attracts the most attention today as it features a fledgling Clint Eastwood playing it both straight as a hen pecked husband and also as a comic book hero. I fear I may have made all this sound far too interesting when I found it so difficult, worth at least one watch, though, I guess.
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- Nov 30, 2020
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- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
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