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Director:
Pietro Germi
Writers:
Pietro Germi (dialogue)
Agenore Incrocci (dialogue)
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Release Date:
15 July 1964 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
It's All About What Happens After What Should Never Happen Happens!
Plot:
Agnese a 15-year-old Sicilian girl is seduced and impregnated by Peppino, her sister's Matilde fiancé;... more | full synopsis
Awards:
6 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
A Brilliant Cultural Self Parody more (8 total)

Cast

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Stefania Sandrelli ... Agnese Ascalone
Saro Urzì ... Don Vincenzo Ascalone
Aldo Puglisi ... Peppino Califano
Lando Buzzanca ... Antonio Ascalone
Lola Braccini ... Amalia Califano
Leopoldo Trieste ... Baron Rizieri Zappalà
Umberto Spadaro ... Cousin Ascalone
Paola Biggio ... Matilde Ascalone
Rocco D'Assunta ... Orlando Califano
Oreste Palella ... Police Chief Polenza
Lina Lagalla ... Francesca Ascalone (as Lina La Galla)
Gustavo D'Arpe ... Ciarpetta the Lawyer
Rosetta Urzì ... Consolata the Maid
Roberta Narbonne ... Rosaura Ascalone
Vincenzo Licata ... Pasquale Profumo the Undertaker
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
A Matter of Honor
Séduite et abandonnée (France)
Seduced and Abandoned
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Runtime:
USA:115 min
Country:
Italy | France
Language:
Italian
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Argentina:18

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Referenced in Delighting in Contrasts (2005) (V) more

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A Brilliant Cultural Self Parody, 9 April 2007
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Author: M. J Arocena from New Zealand

The Italians are masters at laughing at themselves. I wonder if Iraq had developed that kind of self parody the world wouldn't have turned a much different place. I mention Iraq because, based on the tale told in "Seduced and Abandoned", the only difference between Sicily and Iraq is the name of their God. The great Pietro Germi designs a grotesquely comic masterpiece of such ferocity that the line between comedy and tragedy is indeed very thin. As is typical in a Germi film, the cast is uniformly sensational. Here, besides a very young and extraordinary Stefania Sandrelli, there is a superlative performance by Saro Urzi, the head of the family threatened by a devastating scandal. Ignorance and hypocrisy dissected with a refined, elegant hand. Observed with the acute, unsentimental eye of an outsider and yet, Pietro Germi, was an Italian who looked with affectionate horror at the cultural ties that kept his Country trailing behind the rest of the western world. Not to be missed.

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