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Boccaccio '70
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Boccaccio '70 is a 1962 French and Italian anthology film in four parts, comprising comedy, romance and fantasy segments directed by Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini and Mario Monicelli. Produced by Carlo Ponti and Tonino Cervi, from screenplays by Giovanni Arpino, Italo Calvino, Suso Cecchi d'Amico and Ennio Flaiano, it stars Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider, Sophia Loren and Marisa Solinas and was filmed in Milan. Otello Martelli, Armando Nannuzzi and Giuseppe Rotunno served as directors of photography, Piero Zuffi was production designer, and Nino Rota composed the score. The film runs 204 minutes.
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Film · TMDB
6.9An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
Cast
- Marisa Solinas as Luciana (segment "Renzo e Luciana")
- Anita Ekberg as Anita (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
- Romy Schneider as Pupe (segment "Il lavoro")
- Sophia Loren as Zoe (segment "La riffa")
- Germano Gilioli as Renzo (segment "Renzo e Luciana")
- Peppino De Filippo as Dr. Antonio Mazzuolo (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor ...")
Themes
- italian
- marriage
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Ratings
IMDb
7/10
5,568 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
50%
- Year
- 1962
- Runtime
- 205 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
- Rated
- Unrated
- Awards
- 1 nomination total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Vittorio De Sica Federico Fellini Mario Monicelli Luchino Visconti
- Written by
- Suso Cecchi d'Amico Mario Monicelli Italo Calvino Giovanni Arpino Tullio Pinelli Federico Fellini Ennio Flaiano Luchino Visconti Cesare Zavattini
- Produced by
- Carlo Ponti Antonio Cervi
- Starring
- Sophia Loren Anita Ekberg Peppino De Filippo Marisa Solinas Germano Giglioli Romy Schneider Thomas Milian Romolo Valli
- Music by
- Nino Rota Armando Trovajoli Piero Umiliani
- Production companies
- Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica Francinex -Gray Film
- Distributed by
- Cineriz (Italy) Cinédis (France)
- Release dates
- 23 February 1962 ( 1962-02-23 ) (Italy) 29 August 1962 ( 1962-08-29 ) (France)
- Running time
- 150 minutes (release with 3 segments) 208 minutes (Italian version with all four segments)
- Countries
- Italy France
- Languages
- German Italian
- Budget
- $2.5 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- fantasy film
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Original language
- Italian
- Director
- Mario Monicelli
- Screenwriter
- Luchino Visconti
- Cast member
- Alberto Sorrentino
- Composer
- Nino Rota
- Producer
- Tonino Cervi
- Cinematographer
- Giuseppe Rotunno
- Filming location
- Milan
- Duration
- 205
- FilmAffinity ID
- 960484
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Boccaccio 70 - movie poster - 1962.jpg
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- publication date
- 1962-01-01
- title
- Boccaccio '70
- production designer
- Piero Zuffi
- number of parts of this work
- 3
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 50%
- Commons category
- Boccaccio '70
- form of creative work
- anthology film
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Encyclopedic overview
Boccaccio '70 is a 1962 comedy anthology film directed by Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli and Luchino Visconti from an idea by Cesare Zavattini. It consists of four episodes, each by one of the directors, all about a different aspect of morality and love in modern times in the style of Giovanni Boccaccio.
Plot
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