Synopsis
Shotgun weddings, kidnapping, attempted murder, emergency dental work—the things Don Vincenzo will do to restore his family’s honor! Pietro Germi’s Seduced and Abandoned was the follow-up to his international sensation Divorce Italian Style, and in many ways it’s even more audacious—a rollicking yet raw series of escalating comic calamities that ensue in a small village when sixteen-year-old Agnese (the beautiful Stefania Sandrelli) loses her virginity at the hands of her sister’s lascivious fiance. Merciless and mirthful, Seduced and Abandoned skewers Sicilian social customs and pompous patriarchies with a sly, devilish grin.
Cast
| Agnese Ascalone | Stefania Sandrelli |
| Vincenzo Ascalone | Saro Urzi |
| Peppino Califano | Aldo Puglisi |
| Antonio Ascalone | Lando Buzzanca |
| Amalia Califano | Lola Braccini |
| Baron Rizieri | Leopoldo Trieste |
| Cousin Ascalone | Umberto Spadaro |
| Matilde Ascalone | Paola Biggio |
Credits
| Director | Pietro Germi |
| Producer | Franco Cristaldi |
| Story by | Pietro Germi and Luciano Vincenzoni |
| Screenplay | Pietro Germi, Luciano Vincenzoni, Agenore Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli |
| Line producer | Antonio Musu |
| Cinematography | Aiace Parolin |
| Music | Carlo Rustichelli |
| Musical director | Pierluigi Urbini |
| Director of production | Luigi Giacosi |
| Art direction | Carlo Egidi |
| Editing | Roberto Cinquini |
Disc Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Commedia all’italiana, Germi Style, featuring new interviews with screenwriters Furio Scarpelli and Luciano Vincenzoni and Italian film scholar Mario Sesti
- Interviews with actors Stefania Sandrelli and Lando Buzzanca
- Stefania Sandrelli screen test
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Irene Bignardi
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Seduced and Abandoned: Honor and Family
by Aug 28, 2006Once upon a time, in a country of the old, civilized Europe, an article of the civil code allowed a rapist to go free if the victim agreed to marry him. The wedding voided the crime. And once upon a time, which after all was not so long ago—less than fifty years—in the old, civilized Europe . . .
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