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Ferdinando Cefalù
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Daniela Rocca | ... |
Rosalia Cefalù
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| Stefania Sandrelli | ... |
Angela
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Leopoldo Trieste | ... |
Carmelo Patanè
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Odoardo Spadaro | ... |
Don Gaetano Cefalù
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Margherita Girelli | ... |
Sisina
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Angela Cardile | ... |
Agnese
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Lando Buzzanca | ... |
Rosario Mulè
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Pietro Tordi | ... |
Attorney De Marzi
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Ugo Torrente | ... |
Don Calogero
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Antonio Acqua | ... |
Priest
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Bianca Castagnetta | ... |
Donna Matilde Cefalù
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Giovanni Fassiolo | ... |
Don Ciccio Matara
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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 a lover for Rosalia, using Carmelo Patané, a painter well-known by her. Written by Alessio F. Bragadini <alessio@dsnet.it>
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17 September 1962 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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DIVORCE Italian STYLE is one of the funniest films I've ever seen on the subject of how to dissolve a marriage--Italian style, of course. Seems those Italians have a way of forgiving murder if the spouse has cheated and is found in the act--which must give rise to some pretty unsavory stories in real life as well as here.
But however unpleasant the subject matter may seem, this is the merriest romp of a comedy I've come across in a long time. It's so artful in the way it gets inside the mind of the impoverished aristocrat (MARCELLO MASTROIANNI) living in palatial ruins in Sicily and desperately devising a way to get rid of his boring wife. He devises a plan that goes awry when "La Dolce Vita" comes to town and, with all the men in the village attending it, his wife takes that opportunity to run off with her lover.
It's a masterful job that Mastroianni does here, giving little signs of distress with a twitch of his mustache, a frown, a concentrated gaze--in other words, bewitched, bothered and bewildered as he contemplates how to go about getting rid of his freedom so he can pursue a young girl he's enamored of. All the events leading up to the final act are hilariously Italiano in style--those little devils knew how to take advantage of the judicial system.
Summing up: A sheer delight from beginning to end, thanks to a masterful job by Marcello Mastroianni in his Oscar-nominated role.