Wedding in Italian
| Movie | |
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| German title | Wedding in Italian |
| Original title | Matrimonio all'italiana |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Vittorio De Sica |
| script |
Eduardo De Filippo Renato Castellani Tonino Guerra Leo Benvenuti Piero De Bernardi |
| production | Carlo Ponti |
| music | Armando Trovajoli |
| camera | Roberto Gerardi |
| cut | Adriana Novelli |
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The Italian feature film Wedding in Italian ( Matrimonio all'italiana ) from 1964 is a melodramatic comedy. It is the third of four films in which director Vittorio De Sica united the popular duo Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni . The film is based on the theatrical comedy Filumena Marturano by Eduardo De Filippo from 1947, which he filmed in 1951 under the same title. The film has won awards both in Italy and abroad, including the Nastro d'Argento and the Golden Globe Award .
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Filumena, a middle-aged Neapolitan prostitute , lies dull in her sick bed. Her housekeeper Rosalia and her son Alfredo take care of her. She urgently calls for Domenico, the bon vivant and owner of several bakeries and confectioneries, who is a little annoyed and wonders what she wants again this time. Not only has he been her most loyal regular guest for two decades, he also lets her live in his late mother's apartment and pays the housekeeping. When she asked for the priest instead of the doctor, Domenico remembers the years with her.
He got to know her during the war in a brothel in the port of Naples when it was bombed. They have developed feelings for one another, but Filumena's hopes for an orderly relationship have remained unfulfilled. Domenico has often been absent for several months because of trips abroad. Until her death he left her to look after his mother and made her the manager of one of the pastry shops.
Filumena asks Domenico to marry her with the priest, Domenico and the servants gathered around her sickbed. He is already planning his marriage to his secretary Diana, but in anticipation of Filumena's death, he agrees. After the priest has left the house, Filumena proves to be extremely cheerful and admits to Domenico that he set him up. She now remembers the years with him bitterly.
She gave birth to three sons. She refused to accept the advice of other prostitutes to have an abortion. She let them grow up with farming families, paid for by Domenico's money, who knew nothing about the children. Even the sons themselves did not know that the lady who shows up more often is their mother. She just smiles at Alfredo's marriage proposal.
By marrying Domenico, her aim was to give the children a name and to ensure their care. In the apartment she moves into the large room of his late mother, clears out her devotional objects and clears the room she had previously used for her sons. But Domenico calls in a lawyer who makes it clear to Filumena that a marriage concluded by means of deception is invalid. She acknowledges the invalidity and accuses Domenico of hard-heartedness. Then she lets her sons come to her and introduces herself as her mother. All three take her to the heart, after initial hesitation also the oldest. She explains to Domenico that one of the three is his biological son, but steadfastly refuses to reveal which one. Domenico is obsessed with the question which of them could be his son. He chases after them in order to find clues in their behavior without arriving at a result. At a meeting on Mount Vesuvius, Filumena names him one of the sons, but he realizes by himself that it is the one who needs financial support most. Desperate with anger, he throws her to the ground, where her fight suddenly turns into passionate kisses. They marry again, this time in church and in the presence of their three sons. They then call him papa. Filumena cries for the first time - with happiness.
Reviews
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Klaus Hellwig from the film review saw the film as a further descent of the former neorealist De Sica and as an attempt by the producer Carlo Ponti in the "lucrative series" with the addition "in Italian". He thought the story could have been told in fifteen minutes. “However, de Sica believed it would take a good two hours to process this fable. Time-wasting flashbacks ensure that the boredom and popular temperament of the lorries are not neglected. ”The film-dienst also pointed out the commercial objective of the production, which would rely on two recipes for success - on the one hand Sophia Loren and Vittori De Sica, who worked together for the fourth time, on the other hand with the title “in Italian” (original: “all'italiana”), which alludes to Pietro Germi's satires (including divorce in Italian , 1961; seduction in Italian , 1963) and “ juicy entertainment and gleeful laughter ”I promise. De Sica is "less tough, less grotesque" compared to Germi. The “forced Italianità of the presentation” and the drastic comedy would allow a few nuances, but give rise to “punch lines from vulgar to suggestive key”. The film-dienst praised the portrayal of Sophia Loren, in which one "often feels the motive of real pity to be felt through". The theme and design of the film would set wedding in Italian apart from the masses of inconsequential entertainment productions, but De Sica's audience-effective coarsening and excursions into the areas of "frivolous swank" would not go well with the topic. Der Spiegel also mentioned that the title should remind of the “financially rich” divorce in Italian . A “script written on the bosom of the lorries” is exhausted in an “orgy for the make-up master”. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung also criticized the directing performance and the decision of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) to award the film the Golden Globe Award for best foreign production.
De Sica didn't like the title of the film that the distributor had enforced. In the GDR , wedding in Italian was withdrawn from the distribution program by the state film distributor Progress along with five other foreign films.
Awards
Wedding in Italian was awarded four times with a David di Donatello : For the best director, the best producer, and the best male and female lead. In addition, Tecla Scarano was awarded a Nastro d'Argento for best supporting actress. Outside Italy, the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1965, while Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren were nominated for Best Actor in a Comedy. That same year, Loren also received an Oscar nomination for best actress . The following year , the production was nominated for best foreign language film , while Loren was recognized as best actress at the Moscow Film Festival .
Others
Piero Tosi and Vera Marzot were responsible for the costumes .
Web links
- Marriage Italian in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of approval for wedding in Italian . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2010 (PDF; test number: 33 575 V).
- ↑ Marriage Italian Style at Rotten Tomatoes (English) , accessed on September 19, 2014
- ^ Klaus Hellwig: Wedding in Italian . In: Filmkritik No. 5/1965, pp. 273-274
- ↑ Critique in film-dienst , 11/1965 (accessed via Munzinger Online )
- ↑ Der Spiegel No. 13/1965 of March 24, 1965: Brief review in the "New in Germany" section. Wedding in Italian .
- ↑ Gloria . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 11, 1965, p. 23
- ↑ Jerry Vermilye: Great Italian films . Carol Publishing Group, New York 1994. ISBN 0-8065-1480-9 , p. 169
- ↑ Five films banned . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 24, 1966, p. 24