The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
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Signore & Signori (The Birds, the Bees and the Italians) | |
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Directed by | Pietro Germi |
Written by | Age Pietro Germi Luciano Vincenzoni |
Starring | Virna Lisi Gastone Moschin Nora Ricci |
Cinematography | Aiace Parolin |
Music by | Carlo Rustichelli |
Distributed by | Dear Film |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
Countries | Italy France |
Language | Italian |
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians is a 1966 Italian film directed by Pietro Germi. Its original Italian title is Signore & Signori, which means 'Ladies and Gentlemen'.
The anthology film is a sex comedy that presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso. In the first story, a husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair. In the second, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them. In the third, men of the town all seduce a promiscuous teenager, but her father eventually reveals that she is underage, and they face prosecution for statutory rape.
The film shared the Grand Prix with A Man and a Woman at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival.[1] It was later selected for screening as part of the Cannes Classics section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
Cast
- Virna Lisi – Milena Zulian
- Gastone Moschin – Osvaldo Bisigato
- Nora Ricci – Gilda Bisigato
- Alberto Lionello – Toni Gasparini
- Olga Villi – Ippolita Gasparini
- Franco Fabrizi – Lino Benedetti
- Beba Lončar – Noemi Castellan
- Gigi Ballista – Giacinto Castellan
- Carlo Bagno – Bepi Cristofoletto
- Patrizia Valturri – Alda Cristofoletto
- Virgilio Gazzolo – Newspaper editor
- Quinto Parmeggiani – Giovanni Soligo
- Gia Sandri – Betty Soligo
- Moira Orfei – Giorgia Casellato
- Virgilio Scapin – Don Schiavon
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Birds, the Bees and the Italians". www.festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
- ^ "Cannes Classics 2016". Cannes Film Festival. 20 April 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
External links
- 1966 films
- Italian black-and-white films
- Palme d'Or winners
- Commedia all'italiana
- 1960s sex comedy films
- Italian films
- Italian-language films
- Films shot in Veneto
- Films directed by Pietro Germi
- Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli
- Italian anthology films
- Films with screenplays by Luciano Vincenzoni
- Commedia sexy all'italiana
- Films set in Veneto
- 1966 comedy films
- 1960s Italian film stubs
- Erotic comedy film stubs