Divorce Italian Style
In this black-comic masterpiece, director Pietro Germi delivers a diabolically subversive satire of the Italian family structure, Catholic piety, and male chauvinism. Sending up his own suave image, Marcello Mastroianni stars as the middle-aged scion of a faded aristocratic Sicilian family who pines after his younger cousin (Stefania Sandrelli). The problem: he’s married, in a country where divorce is illegal. Cue the murderous fantasies that drive him down an increasingly deranged path of self-delusion and self-destruction. Laying bare the absurd contradictions of bourgeois morality with each audacious twist, Germi serves up an acerbic portrait of a tradition-bound culture colliding with the unstoppable force of modernity.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- The Man with a Cigar in His Mouth, a documentary by critic Mario Sesti featuring interviews with longtime friends and collaborators of director Pietro Germi’s
- Interviews with Sesti and actors Lando Buzzanca and Stefania Sandrelli
- Interview with screenwriter Ennio De Concini
- Screen tests with Sandrelli and actor Daniela Rocca
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Stuart Klawans
Cover illustration by Jaime Hernandez, design by Eric Skillman
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- The Man with a Cigar in His Mouth, a documentary by critic Mario Sesti featuring interviews with longtime friends and collaborators of director Pietro Germi’s
- Interviews with Sesti and actors Lando Buzzanca and Stefania Sandrelli
- Interview with screenwriter Ennio De Concini
- Screen tests with Sandrelli and actor Daniela Rocca
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Stuart Klawans
Cover illustration by Jaime Hernandez, design by Eric Skillman
Cast
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Baron Ferdinando Cefalù
- Daniela Rocca
- Rosalia
- Stefania Sandrelli
- Angela
- Leopoldo Trieste
- Carmelo Patanè
- Odoardo Spadaro
- Don Gaetano
- Angela Cardile
- Agnese
- Margherita Girelli
- Sisina
- Bianca Castagnetta
- Donna Matilde
- Lando Buzzanca
- Rosario Mulè
- Pietro Tordi
- Attorney De Marzi
- Laura Tomiselli
- Zia Fifidda
- Ugo Torrente
- Don Calogero
- Antonio Acqua
- Parish priest
Credits
- Director
- Pietro Germi
- Screenplay by
- Ennio De Concini
- Screenplay by
- Pietro Germi
- Screenplay by
- Alfredo Giannetti
- Producer
- Franco Cristaldi
- Director of photography
- Leonida Barboni
- Director of photography
- Carlo Di Palma
- Music by
- Carlo Rustichelli
- Editor
- Roberto Cinquini
- Production design
- Carlo Egidi
- Costume designer
- Dina Di Bari
A scene from Divorce Italian Style
