Seven Beauties (1975)
Starring Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler
Directed by Lina Wertmüller
Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director, Seven Beauties stars Giancarlo Giannini (Swept Away) as Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as 'Pasqualino Seven Beauties.' A petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.
Runtime: 116 min.
Rating: 7.9
DVD
Languages: Deutsch,Italiano,Spanish
Countries: Italy
Genres: Comedy,Drama,War
Keywords: concentration camp,fight,world war ii,naples, italy,sister,war,army,thief,honor,german officer,woman director,1940s
Cast
Pasqualino Frafuso aka Settebellezze
Pedro the Anarchist Prisoner
Commandant
Concettina, a Sister
the socialist
Francesco - Pasqualino's comrade
Don Raffaele
Pasqualino's mother
the lawyer
Madman (uncredited)
Carolina