Wifemistress (film)

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Wifemistress (Mogliamante)
Directed by Marco Vicario
Produced by Franco Cristaldi
Alberto Pugliese
Written by Rodolfo Sonego
Marco Vicario
Starring Laura Antonelli
Marcello Mastroianni
Leonard Mann
Olga Karlatos
Distributed by Quartet Films
Release date(s) 1 March 1978 (France)
7 January 1979 (USA)
Running time 106 min.
Country Italy
Language Italian
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Wifemistress (orig. Mogliamante) is a 1978 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Marco Vicario and starring Laura Antonelli and Marcello Mastroianni.

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Luigi De Angelis (Marcello Mastroianni) is a political activist who has to go into hiding from the authorities as he has been charged for murder. His wife, Antonia (Laura Antonelli) believes him dead. As she goes through his papers, she discovers his political writings as well as his former extramarital affairs. Whereas she had been considered frigid since their wedding night and has stayed subservient and inactive ever since, she starts undergoing a major change in her life. She takes over his business, publishes his writings, begins an affair with a young doctor and generally "becomes" the female analogue of her husband's personality. Luigi who is actually hiding in an abandoned room very close to his home, observes in amazement the change in his wife and realizes what he had missed all along.

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