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Seduced and Abandoned

Pietro Germi

Italy

1964

117 minutes

Black and White

1.85:1

Italian

350

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 AscaloneStefania Sandrelli
Vincenzo Ascalone Saro Urzi
Peppino Califano Aldo Puglisi
Antonio Ascalone Lando Buzzanca
Amalia Califano Lola Braccini
Baron Rizieri Leopoldo Trieste
Cousin AscaloneUmberto Spadaro
Matilde Ascalone Paola Biggio

Credits

DirectorPietro Germi
ProducerFranco Cristaldi
Story byPietro Germi and Luciano Vincenzoni
ScreenplayPietro Germi, Luciano Vincenzoni, Agenore Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli
Line producerAntonio Musu
CinematographyAiace Parolin
MusicCarlo Rustichelli
Musical directorPierluigi Urbini
Director of productionLuigi Giacosi
Art directionCarlo Egidi
EditingRoberto 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

From the Current

Seduced and Abandoned: Honor and Family

by Irene Bignardi Aug 28, 2006

Once 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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