Directed by : Lina WERTMÜLLER
Year of production : 1975 Country : ITALY Length : 116 minutes
Pasqualino, an Italian everyman, deserts the army during World War II. Germans capture him and send him to a prison camp, where he does just about anything to survive. In lengthy flashbacks, we see him and his family of seven unattractive sisters (the seven beauties), his accidental murder of one sister's lover, his confession and imprisonment, his calculated switch to an asylum, his rape of a patient, and his volunteering to be a soldier to escape confinement. To the chagrin of his obese German captor, his weak and cowardly character enables him to survive the war and return to Naples where he has a plan to survive the next world catastrophe.
© Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale
/ Lina WERTMULLER
Lina WERTMÜLLER - Director
Lina WERTMÜLLER - Script / Dialogue
Franco FRATICELLI - Film Editor
Enrico JOB - Costumes designer
Tonino DELLI COLLI - Cinematographer
Giancarlo GIANNINI - Pasqualino Settebellezze
Fernando REY - Pedro
Shirley STOLER - Prison camp commandant
Elena FIORE - Concettina
Picture of the film © Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale
Production
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Distribution
CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA (ROMA) - T: 06722941 - http://www.fondazionecsc.it/
