SEDUCED AND ABANDONED
Sedotta E Abbandonata

Germi's follow-up to Divorce-ltalian Style was this frenzied farce. a young man, Peppino, courts the plump Matilde for her dowry but ends up seducing her sister, Agnese. This sets off a manic series of events; the family wants him to marry the girl or go to jail but he abandons Agnese because she is no longer a virgin! Along the way there's an attempt to kill Peppino and the head of the family fakes a heart attack to save the family honor! A ferociously funny little film.

Best Actor (Saro Urzi) Cannes 1964

Directed by Pietro Germi. Script; Pietro Germi, Luciano Vincenzoni, Age, Furio Scarpelli. Photo; Aiace Parolin. Music; Carlo Rustichelli. cast; Stefania Sandrelli, Aldo Puglisi, Saro Urzi, Lando Buzzanca, Leopoldo Trieste

Italy, 1963 128 minutes. Original Italian dialog with English subtitles. Slight letterbox (1:1.66)
ISBN 1-55881-216-4
$29.95

LOVE IN THE CITY
Amore in Citta

True episodes taken from newspaper reports were filmed in the locales where the events took place with some of the people involved in them. The most poignant episode finds a Sicilian girl seduced and abandoned in Rome. The bleakest from Antonioni features interviews with young girls who survived suicide attempts. The most exhilarating comes from Fellini who presents a reporter at a matrimonial agency claiming to be a doctor representing a werewolf who thinks that marriage might cure him!

Directed by Dino Risi, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Francesco Maselli, Cesare Zavattini, Alberto Lattuada. Script by Aldo Buzzi, Luigi Malerba, Luigi Chiarini, Tullio Pinelli, Vittorio Vettroni. Photo by Gianni Di Venanzo. Music by Mario Nascimbene. Featuring Antonio Cifariello, Livia Venturini, and nonprofessionals from the Centro Sperimentale Di Cinematografia, Rome.

Italy 1953 90 minutes. Italian dialog with English subtitles.
ISBN 1-55881-215-6
$29.95

WOMEN WITHOUT NAMES
Donna Seza Noma

Following World War Two, expatriate women who had no passports or identification documents were herded into detention centers. Their lives consisted of sleepless nights, conflicts and thoughts of escape. Simone Simon is outstanding as a detainee who, at least superficially, appears to be a prissy bitch who hatches a plan to seduce a married camp worker, marry him and gain her freedom. Surprising and noteworthy is that although the film was made in the restrictive 50's, there are subplots dealing with sexuality, lesbianism, abortion, and women's rights. The film is also very anti-war. Because of these controversial topics, the film received limited distribution in the United States and remains obscure to fans and scholars of Italian Neorealism. Nevertheless, the film's frank, uncompromising realism makes it one of the movement's most thoughtful and thrilling dramas. Shot on location in an actual camp using real detainees as extras.

Directed by Geza Radvanyi. Starring Simone Simon, Valentina Cortesa, Vivi Giol, Francoise Rosay.

Italy, 1949. 94 min. Italian, French and English dialog with subtitles.
ISBN 1-55881-533-3
$29.95