Boccaccio '70 (1962)

Directors:

Vittorio De Sica
Federico Fellini

Writers:

Giovanni Arpino (segment)
Italo Calvino (segment)

Release Date:

26 June 1962 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Fantasy | Romance

Plot:

Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana...

Plot Keywords:

Billboard | Apostrophe In Title | Digit In Title | Episodic | Amusement Park

Cast

Marisa Solinas	...	Luciana (segment "Renzo e Luciana")
Germano Gilioli	...	Renzo (segment "Renzo e Luciana")
Anita Ekberg	...	Anita (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
Peppino De Filippo	...	Dr. Antonio Mazzuolo (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
Romy Schneider	...	Pupe (segment "Il lavoro")
Tomas Milian	...	Conte Ottavio (segment "Il lavoro") (as Thomas Milian)
Romolo Valli	...	Lawyer Zacchi (segment "Il lavoro")
Sophia Loren	...	Zoe (segment "La riffa")
Luigi Giuliani	...	Gaetano (segment "La riffa")
Alfio Vita	...	Cuspet (segment "La riffa")

Also Known As:

Boccaccio '70 (USA)
Boccace 70 (France)

Runtime:

Argentina:205 min | Germany:125 min (3 episodes) (cut) | Netherlands:158 min (3 episodes) | USA:150 min (3 episodes) (cut) | France:150 min (3 episodes) (cut) | 208 min (4 episodes)

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian | German

Color:

Color (Technicolor/Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:PG | Hungary:18 | Netherlands:12 (2004) (DVD) | Netherlands:9 (2009) (DVD) | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | Italy:VM14 | Sweden:15 | UK:X | USA:Unrated | Germany:6 (re-rating) | West Germany:18

Filming Locations:

E.U.R., Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Cineriz

Trivia:

When Mario Monicelli's segment, "Renzo e Luciana", was cut, producer Carlo Ponti offered to finance the Monicelli film as a full-length feature on its own. This was never realized. This segment was apparently cut because Monicelli promised to deliver a "major American star" but failed in this endeavor, thus his film became cast with mostly unknowns. When the film premiered at Cannes, it was jeered by critics and filmmakers after they became informed of the news about Monicelli's unjustly removed segment.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Mafioso (1962)

Soundtrack:

Day Dream

do not miss!

Specifically for film lovers,like myself, who only ever got to watch this collection (minus the first segment) on late-late night commercial TV- run out and get a copy of this remastered version. To watch this as it was originally intended- the work of some of Italy's finest directors- is a joy. As for which segment is the best... it's hard to say...Fellini's segment is better than I remembered it...and who could ever forget Anita Ekberg...in truth I have a fondness for all these Italian films I saw in my youth that makes objectivity hard.P.S.: Of course, the same must be said for Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow-also reissued- I nearly cried at how good the print was.