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Awards

Academy Awards 1963 - Nominated - Best Actor

Academy Awards 1963 - Nominated - Best Director

Academy Awards 1963 - Won - Best Original Screenplay

BAFTA Awards 1964 - Nominated - Best Film From Any Source

Academy Awards 1963 - Nominated - Best Actor

Academy Awards 1963 - Nominated - Best Director

Academy Awards 1963 - Won - Best Original Screenplay

BAFTA Awards 1964 - Nominated - Best Film From Any Source

BAFTA Awards 1964 - Nominated - Best Foreign Actress

BAFTA Awards 1964 - Won - Best Foreign Actor

Cannes Film Festival 1962 - Nominated - Palme d'Or

Cannes Film Festival 1962 - Won - Best Comedy

Directors Guild of America Awards 1963 - Nominated - Outstanding Motion Picture Direction

Golden Globe Awards 1963 - Won - Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Awards 1963 - Won - Best Foreign Language Film

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists awards 1962 - Won - Best Actor

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Awards 1962 - Won - Best Original Story

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Divorce Italian Style

Director:
Pietro Germi
104 Minutes
 

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Baron Ferdinando Cefalu (Marcello Mastroianni) longs to marry his nubile young cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli), but one obstacle stands in his way: his fatuous and fawning wife, Rosalia (Daniela Rocca). His solution? Since divorce is illegal, he hatches a plan to lure his spouse into the arms of another and then murder her in a justifiable effort to save his honor. Winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Pietro Germi directs this hilarious and cutting satire of Sicilian male - chauvinist culture, .

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Runtime:
104 min.

Country:
ITALY

Language:
Italian

Color:
Color

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SPECIAL FEATURES: 

  • SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE - DISC SET FEATURES
  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer
  • Pietro Germi: The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth, a 39 - minute documentary by critic andfilmmaker Mario Sesti featuring interviews with Germi's longtime friends and collaborators
  • Delighting in Contrasts, a new 30 - minute collection of interviews with Sesti and actors Lando Buzzanca and Stefania Sandrellidiscussing Germi on the set of Divorce Italian Style
  • An interview with screenwriter Ennio De Concini
  • Rare screen - test footage of actresses Daniela Rocca and Stefania Sandrelli
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • Plus: a 28 - page booklet featuring a new essay by film criticStuart Klawans and reprinted pieces by director Martin Scorsese and film historian Andrew Sarris

 

 

 

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