Seven Beauties (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Seven beauties |
| Original title | Pasqualino Settebellezze |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lina Wertmüller |
| script | Lina Wertmüller |
| music |
Nando de Luca , Enzo Jannacci |
| camera | Tonino Delli Colli |
| cut | Franco Fraticelli |
| occupation | |
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Seven Beauties (Italian Pasqualino Settebellezze , German Pasqualino Siebenschönheiten ) is an Italian feature film from 1975 , which was written and directed by Lina Wertmüller . The main roles are played by Giancarlo Giannini , Fernando Rey and Shirley Stoler .
The film is about an Italian Jedermann who deserted from the army during the Second World War, was captured by the Germans and sent to a prison camp, where he did everything possible to survive. So he delivers his only buddy to the hangman, and in order to save his own head, he acts as a goat for the dreaded Nazi mistress of the camp.
Through flashbacks we learn of his family with seven unattractive sisters, his accidental manslaughter of a lover of one of his sisters, his imprisonment in a madhouse - where he raped a patient - and his volunteering as a soldier to escape captivity.
For her work on the film, Wertmüller was nominated as the first woman for an Oscar for best director at the 1977 Academy Awards. It didn't happen again until 1993; Only the New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion was nominated accordingly for Das Piano . The film received three other Oscar nominations, including one for best foreign language film and a Golden Globe nomination for best foreign film.
The Design and the costumes were designed by the husband of the director, Enrico job.
action
The picaresque story follows its protagonist Pasqualino, a dandy city dweller in the Naples of fascist Italy at the time of World War II .
To save the family honor, Pasqualino kills a pimp who has turned his sister into a prostitute. To dispose of the victim's body, he dismantles it and puts the parts in suitcases. When caught by the police, he is convicted and sent to prison.
Pasqualino succeeds in having himself transferred to a psychiatric hospital. Desperate to escape from prison, he volunteers for the Italian army , which is allied with the German army. He deserted with an Italian comrade, but they were caught and sent to a German concentration camp.
As a survival strategy, Pasqualino decides to be sexually pleasing to the obese and ugly captain. His plan succeeds, but the commander transfers responsibility for a part of the camp to Pasqualino as Kapo . Here he has to choose six men to be killed to prevent all of them from being killed. Pasqualino finally decides to execute his former army comrade, and he is also responsible for the death of another prisoner, a Spanish anarchist.
At the end of the war, on his return to Naples, Pasqualino discovers that his seven sisters, his fiancée, and even his mother all survived by becoming prostitutes.
Reviews
“Effectively staged grotesque melodrama, whose macabre humor often brushes the boundaries of tastelessness; ambivalent in his political statement. A baroque-looking film with a great leading actor. "
Web links
- Seven Beauties in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Seven Beauties at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Seven beauties. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 12, 2019 .
- ^ The 49th Academy Awards (1977) Nominees and Winners. In: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . AMPAS, accessed January 11, 2019 .