Marriage Italian Style

"You have never seen it before! A New torrent of emotions! A New Triumph of Film-Making from Embassy Pictures who brought you "Divorce Italian Style" and "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" now brings you..."

1964 1h 42m IT

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BANGER

★7.7TMDB · 562

DramaRomanceComedy

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During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.

“You have never seen it before! A New torrent of emotions! A New Triumph of Film-Making from Embassy Pictures who brought you "Divorce Italian Style" and "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" now brings you...”

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Cast

Sophia Loren
Filumena Marturano
Marcello Mastroianni
Domenico Soriano
Aldo Puglisi
Alfredo
Tecla Scarano
Rosalia
Marilù Tolo
Diana
Gianni Ridolfi
Umberto
Generoso Cortini
Michele
Vito Moricone
Riccardo

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Writers: Renato Castellani, Tonino Guerra, Leonardo Benvenuti
Languages: Italian
Countries: Italy, France

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1 / 8

ERA

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62 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: Italy, France.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Directed by Vittorio De Sica, shot by Roberto Gerardi. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Armando Trovajoli. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Adriana Novelli shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni and Aldo Puglisi carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "You have never seen it before! A New torrent of emotions! A New Triumph of Film-Making from Embassy Pictures who brought you "Divorce Italian Style" and "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" now brings you...".

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IMDB entry: tt0058335 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Vittorio De Sica directs. Roberto Gerardi behind the camera. Armando Trovajoli scores. Adriana Novelli cuts. Produced in Italy, France. Dialogue in Italian.

Trivia

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162 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2International production across 2 countries: Italy, France.
3Directed by Vittorio De Sica, shot by Roberto Gerardi. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Armando Trovajoli. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Adriana Novelli shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni and Aldo Puglisi carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "You have never seen it before! A New torrent of emotions! A New Triumph of Film-Making from Embassy Pictures who brought you "Divorce Italian Style" and "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" now brings you...".
8IMDB entry: tt0058335 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Roberto Gerardi
Original score: Armando Trovajoli
Editing: Adriana Novelli
Production design: Carlo Egidi
Costume design: Piero Tosi
Makeup / hair: Giuseppe Annunziata
Runtime: 102 min · 1h 42m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $12,800,000
Original language: IT
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Marriage Italian Style (1964)

Awards

David di Donatello for Best Director
David di Donatello for Best Actor

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CinemaSerf2023-06-18
★ 7/10
Sometimes when you watch Sophia Loren's Hollywood efforts, she can look a bit unnatural - forced, even. Put her in front of Vittorio De Sica and pair her with Marcello Mastroianni, though, and she is in her element - and that makes for a really enjoyable comedy drama here. It's all set in Naples after the end of WWII when the wealthy "Don Domenico" alights on the seventeen year old, down at heel, hooker "Filumena" and over the years she becomes his mistress whom he supports comfortably. His eyes are set on a younger women for marriage and when "Filumena" discovers this she plays the ultimate of tricks on her beau forcing him to marry her instead. It's a short lived victory, however, when it transpires that her motives were less than honourable and that she has three children only one of whom is his! She won't tell him whom, he is desperate to know - will it end in tears of joy or disaster? It does take a little bit of time for us to get up to speed, but once we are in a higher gear this is a wittily written and funny story that sort of becomes a battle of the sexes - a battle of wits, certainly! Mastroianni and Loren have chemistry a-plenty between them and you can't help but have sympathy for his poor old sidekick "Alfredo" (Aldo Puglisi) too, as the romantic mayhem ensues in quite a stylish fashion. It's really well worth a watch, this - two stars at the top of their game and some fine location photography and rickety old cars!

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