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Divorce - Italian style [videorecording (DVD)]

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Criterion Collection, c2005.

Marriage -- Drama.

Criterion collection 286.

Alternate title:

Divorzio all'italiana [videorecording (DVD)]

The man with the cigar in his mouth [videorecording (DVD)].

[videorecording (DVD)]

2-disc special ed.

2 videodiscs (104 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

Originally produced as an Italian motion picture in 1962.

Program content : Lux Film/VidesCinematografica/Galatea, 1961.

Special features (Disc 2): The man with a cigar in his mouth, a 39-minute documentary by critic and filmmaker Mario Sesti featuring interviews with Germi's longtime friends and collaborators ; Delighting in contrasts, a new 30-minutue collection of interviews with Sesti and actors Lando Buzzanca and Stefania Sandrelli discussing Germi on the set of Divorce Italian style ; an interview with screenwriter Ennio De Concini; rare screen-test footage of actors Stefania Sandrelli and Daniela Rocca ; plus: a 28-page booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Stuart Klawans and reprinted pieces by director Martin Scorsese and film historian Andrew Sarris.

In Italian with optional English subtitles.

Janus Films ; un film Lux/Vides/Galatea ; produced by Franco Cristaldi ; story and screenplay by Alfredo Giannetti, Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi ; directed by Pietro Germi.

Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste, Odoardo Spadaro, Angela Cardile, Margherita Girelli, Lando Buzzanca, Pietro Tordi, Ugo Torrente, Antonio Acqua, Bianca Castagnetta and Giovanni Fassiolo.

"Baron Ferdinano Cefalù (Marcello Matroianni) 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). His solution? Since divorce is illegal, he will devise a scenario wherein he can catch his spouse in the arms of another and murder her to save his honor-a lesser offense. The Criterion Collection is proud to present director Pietro Germi's hilarious and cutting satire of Italy's hypocritical judicial system and male-dominated culture, winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay."--Container.

Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, 1962.

Satirical films.

Germi, Pietro, 1914-1974.

Mastroianni, Marcello, 1924-1996.

Rocca, Daniela.

Sandrelli, Stefania.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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