Dramma della gelosia (tutti i particolari in cronaca) (1970)

Director:

Ettore Scola

Writers:

Agenore Incrocci (writer)
Furio Scarpelli (writer)

Release Date:

18 January 1970 (Sweden)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies. Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello...

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Marcello Mastroianni	...	Oreste
Monica Vitti	...	Adelaide
Giancarlo Giannini	...	Nello
Manuel Zarzo	...	Uto
Marisa Merlini	...	Silvana
Hércules Cortés	...	Ambleto di Meo
Fernando Sánchez Polack	...	District Head of Communist Party
Gioia Desideri	...	Adelaide's Friend
Juan Diego	...	Antonia's Son
Bruno Scipioni	...	Pizza maker
Josefina Serratosa	...	Antonia
Giuseppe Maffioli	...	Lawyer
Paola Natale	...	Flower Seller
Brizio Montinaro	...	Restaurant Night Guard
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Corrado Gaipa	...	President of tribunal

Also Known As:

Drama of Jealousy
El demonio de los celos (Spain)
Jealousy, Italian Style
The Motive Was Jealousy
The Pizza Triangle

Runtime:

France:105 min | Germany:107 min | Italy:107 min | Spain:102 min | USA:99 min | Argentina:106 min

Country:

Italy | Spain

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:11 | USA:R | Argentina:13 | West Germany:16 (f) (w)

Filming Locations:

Madrid, Spain

Company:

Dean Film

Movie Connections:

Featured in Marcello Mastroianni: mi ricordo, sì, io mi ricordo (1997)

Pizza with everything.

This is one of the best Italian comedies ever made. Known both as A DRAMA OF JEALOUSY and THE PIZZA TRIANGLE, it is an engrossing farce about a love triangle in modern Rome. Bricklayer Marcello Mastroianni meets flower-seller Monica Vitti at a political demonstration. He decides to ditch his fat, older wife for her. All goes well until a pizza, in the shape of a heart, arrives. It is sent to the girl by a young pizza-chef, played by Giancarlo Giannini. The pizza man becomes Vitti's lover, and poor Marcello goes mad with jealousy and attempts suicide, as do each of the other two at some point in this hysterical soap opera. The three lead performers, among the best that the Italian cinema has ever had to offer, are magnificent, as is the direction and comic timing by Ettore Scola, whose DOWN AND DIRTY this would make an appropriate companion-piece to. One could call this movie "commedia all'italiana" with peppers, mushrooms, and cheese.