Seduced and Abandoned (1964 film)
1964 Italian film
- Stefania Sandrelli
- Saro Urzì
- Aldo Puglisi
- Lando Buzzanca
- Leopoldo Trieste
- Umberto Spadaro
- Rocco D'Assunta
- Lola Braccini
Release date
- July 15, 1964 (1964-07-15) (United States)
Running time
France
Seduced and Abandoned (Italian: Sedotta e abbandonata) is a 1964 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Pietro Germi. It was screened at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Plot
The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent quarry owner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily (specifically Sciacca), as did Germi's previous film, Divorce, Italian Style. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiancé, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father. Vincenzo immediately demands that the man, Peppino Califano, marry his daughter, and antics ensue. The film is a dark satire of Sicilian social customs and honor laws, and is very similar to Divorce, Italian Style.
Cast
- Stefania Sandrelli - Agnese Ascalone
- Saro Urzì - Don Vincenzo Ascalone
- Aldo Puglisi - Peppino Califano
- Lando Buzzanca - Antonio Ascalone
- Lola Braccini - Amalia Califano
- Leopoldo Trieste - Baron Rizieri Zappalà
- Umberto Spadaro - Cousin Ascalone, a lawyer
- Paola Biggio - Matilde Ascalone
- Rocco D'Assunta - Orlando Califano
- Oreste Palella - Police Chief Polenza
- Lina Lagalla - Francesca Ascalone
- Gustavo D'Arpe - Ciarpetta the Lawyer
- Rosetta Urzì - Consolata the Maid
- Roberta Narbonne - Rosaura Ascalone
- Vincenzo Licata - Pasquale Profumo the Undertaker
- Attilio Martella - The Magistrate Judge
- Adelino Campardo - Police Officer Bisigato
- Salvatore Fazio - Don Mariano the Priest
- Italia Spadaro - Aunt Carmela
Context
These Sicilian customs, including a form of bride kidnapping or elopement known as fuitina and the following "rehabilitating marriage" (matrimonio riparatore), were brought to national attention in 1966 by the case of Franca Viola. Her story was turned into the 1970 film, La moglie più bella (The Most Beautiful Wife) by Damiano Damiani and starring Ornella Muti.[2]
See also
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sedotta e abbandonata.
- Seduced and Abandoned at IMDb
- Seduced and Abandoned at Rotten Tomatoes
- Seduced and Abandoned: Honor and Family an essay by Irene Bignardi at the Criterion Collection
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Pietro Germi filmography
- The Testimony (1946)
- Lost Youth (1947)
- In the Name of the Law (1949)
- Path of Hope (1950)
- Four Ways Out (1951)
- The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo (1952)
- Mademoiselle Gobete (1952)
- Jealousy (1953)
- Mid-Century Loves (segment "Guerra 1915—18", 1954)
- The Railroad Man (1956)
- A Man of Straw (1958)
- The Facts of Murder (1959)
- Divorce Italian Style (1961)
- Seduced and Abandoned (1964)
- The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)
- L'immorale (1967)
- Serafino (1968)
- A Pocketful of Chestnuts (1970)
- Alfredo, Alfredo (1972)
- The Ten Commandments (1945)
- Against the Law (1950)
- My Friends (1975)
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