Marriage Italian Style
(1964)
Overview
In Naples, in the Second World War, the wolf businessman Domenico Soriano meets the seventeen years old whore Filumena Marturano in a brothel during an allied bombing. Two years later, in the post-war, they meet each other by chance and begin a long affair. For twenty-two years, Filumena is his mistress and administrates his shops in Naples while Domenico is traveling. When Domenico decides to marry the young cashier of his bakery, Filumena lures him as if she were near to death and he marries her. Later he annuls their matrimony, and she tells him that she has three sons that she raised secretly, one of them is his legitimate son but she does not disclose his identity. The middle-age Domenico uses the most different subterfuges trying to find which teenager might be his son.
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Director: | Vittorio De Sica |
Writers: | Renato Castellani, Tonino Guerra, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi |
Cast
Sophia Loren
Marcello Mastroianni
Aldo Puglisi
Tecla Scarano |
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Production Companies
Les Films Concordia, Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
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