The Birds, the Bees and the Italians

Signore & Signori
(The Birds, the Bees and the Italians)
Signore & Signori ; (The Birds, the Bees and the Italians)
	Original film poster
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	Claridge Pictures
Release dates	10 February 1966 (Italy); 24 June 1966 (France)
Running time	115 minutes
Countries	France; Italy
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 try to seduce a promiscuous teenager, but her father eventually reveals that she is underage.

The film shared the Grand Prix with A Man and a Woman at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

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 Loncar - 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". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-03-08.

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