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Le bambole

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Le bambole
Directed byDino Risi
Luigi Comecini
Franco Rossi
Mauro Bolognini
Screenplay byRodolfo Sonego
Luciano Salce Steno
Rodolfo Sonego
Leo Benvenuti
Piero De Bernardi
Story byRodolfo Sonego
Luciano Salce Steno
Luigi Magni
Leo Benvenuti
Piero De Bernardi
Based onBocccaccio
(from a novel by)
Produced byGianni Hecht Lucari
StarringNino Manfredi
Virna Lisi
Elke Sommer
Maurizio Arena
CinematographyLeonida Barboni
Roberto Gerardi
Ennio Guarnieri
Mario Montuori
Edited byRoberto Cinquini
Giorgio Serrallonga
Music byArmando Trovajoli
(as Armando Trovaioli)
Distributed byRoyal Films International
(UK)
Columbia Pictures
(USA)
Release dates
  • 26 January 1965 (1965-01-26) (Italy)
  • June 28, 1965 (1965-06-28) (New York City)
Running time
109 minutes
CountriesItaly
France
LanguageItalian

Le bambole (U.S. title: The Dolls, UK title: Four Kinds of Love) is a 1965 Italian comedy film in four segments; starring Nino Manfredi, Virna Lisi, Elke Sommer, and Mario Montuori.

The four vignettes—The Telephone Call (La telefonata), Treatise on Eugenics (Il trattato di eugenetica), The Soup (La minestra), and Monsignor Cupid (Monsignor Cupido)—concern secrets of love and secret lovers.[1] The fourth segment is based on a tale of Boccaccio's The Decameron.[2]

Plot

This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories.

Cast

Notes

  1. ^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
  2. ^ Bosley Crowther (June 29, 1965). "Le Bambole (1965) - Italian Vignettes:Gina Lollobrigida Tops International Cast". The New York Times.