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Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975)
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21 January 1976 (USA) morePlot:
Pasqualino Settebellezze è un giovane malavitoso napoletano che decide di commettere un crimine per farsi un nome in quel mondo... more | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 nominations moreUser Comments:
Captivating parable about the evils of Nazism moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Giancarlo Giannini | ... | Pasqualino Frafuso | |
| Fernando Rey | ... | Pedro the Anarchist Prisoner | |
| Shirley Stoler | ... | Commandant | |
| Elena Fiore | ... | Concettina, a Sister | |
| Piero Di Iorio | ... | Francesco His Friend | |
| Enzo Vitale | ... | Don Raffaele | |
| Roberto Herlitzka | ... | Socialist | |
| Lucio Amelio | ... | Lawyer | |
| Ermelinda De Felice | ... | His Mother | |
| Bianca D'Origlia | |||
| Francesca Marciano | ... | Carolina (as Francesca Marciani) | |
| Mario Conti | ... | Totonno Concettina's Pimp, His Victim | |
| Barbara Valmorin | |||
| Emilio Salvatori | |||
| Aristide Caporale | (as Aristide Caporali) |
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Seven Beauties (International: English title) (USA)Pasqualino: Seven Beauties (informal literal English title)
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Norway:18 | Argentina:18 | Chile:18 | Finland:K-18 | USA:R | Hong Kong:III | West Germany:18 (nf) | Australia:MAFilming Locations:
Naples, Campania, ItalyFun Stuff
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With this film, Lina Wertmüller became the first woman ever nominated for an Academy Award as Best Director. moreQuotes:
Pasqualino Frafuso: You'll never take Pasqualino Seven-Beauties! Never will you be able to take him alive!Policeman: [seizing him] Stop bragging.
Pasqualino Frafuso: So I'm wrong.
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Lina Wertmuller had a brief moment in the spotlight back in the mid-seventies, mostly due to the impact of three of her films: "Love and Anarchy," "Swept Away," and "Seven Beauties." Although her career took a nose-dive shortly thereafter, "Seven Beauties" still stands as her best film, and also one of the best films of its era.
Giancarlo Giannini gives a compelling and hilarious performance as Pasqualino Settebellezze, an Italian hood who is sent to prison after killing his sister's lover. He fakes insanity, gets sent to an institution, escapes by joining the military, deserts, gets caught, and is put in a concentration camp. There, he seduces his grotesque female camp commander in order to survive. Giannini makes his character wholly believable, and his presence on-screen (in nearly every scene) keeps the story going from one plot twist to the next. His character has a bumbling, comic presence to him, but also a certain amount of craft and sophistication.
Wertmuller creates a story that works both as slapstick and anti-war drama. Her direction is tight and controlled, and she doesn't flinch away from depicting the brutalities of Nazism. Parts of the film may seem like forerunners of the "gross-out" gags that have populated cinema in recent years, but these moments are actually used to show how the Nazis degraded ordinary innocents and demoralized the world around them. The most interesting aspect of the story is the way Wertmuller compares Hitler's tactics to those of the underground mafia; the Nazis, in the end, come off as hypocritical for persecuting Pasqualino for his crimes. Pasqualino may be a slovenly thug, but placed next to even the lowest-ranking of Hitler's cronies, he's a knight in shining armor.