Divorce, Italian Style
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| Directed by | Pietro Germi |
| Produced by | Franco Cristaldi |
| Written by | Ennio De Concini Pietro Germi Alfredo Giannetti Agenore Incrocci (uncredited) |
| Starring | Marcello Mastroianni Daniela Rocca Stefania Sandrelli Leopoldo Trieste Odoardo Spadaro |
| Distributed by | Embassy Pictures Corporation |
| Release date(s) | 17 September 1962 |
| Running time | 108 min |
| Language | Italian |
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Divorce, Italian Style (or Divorzio all'italiana) is a 1961 Italian language comedy film directed by Pietro Germi, written by Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti and Agenore Incrocci, and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Lando Buzzanca and Leopoldo Trieste.
It won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Marcello Mastroianni) and Best Director. It was released on DVD by the Criterion Collection in 2005.
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Divorce, Italian Style tells the story of a Sicilian nobleman who wants to remarry, but, since divorce was illegal in Italy at the time, has to try and make his current wife fall in love with another so that he can catch them together, murder her, and get a light sentence for committing an honour killing.
