| Boccaccio '70 | |
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| Directed by | Vittorio De Sica Luchino Visconti Federico Fellini Mario Monicelli |
| Produced by | Carlo Ponti Tonino Cervi |
| Written by | Cesare Zavattini Luchino Visconti Mario Monicelli Federico Fellini |
| Starring | Anita Ekberg Romy Schneider Sophia Loren Marisa Solinas |
| Music by | Nino Rota Armando Trovaioli |
| Release date(s) | February 22, 1962 |
| Running time | 150 minutes (release with 3 segments) 208 min (Italian version with all four segments) |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | German/Italian |
Boccaccio '70 is a 1962 Italian portmanteau film directed by Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio de Sica, from an idea by Cesare Zavattini. It is an anthology of four episodes, each by one of the directors, all about a different aspect of morality and love in modern times, in the style of Boccaccio.
The four original episodes were:
The first episode, by Monicelli, was only present in the Italian distribution of the film. Out of solidarity towards Monicelli, the other three directors did not go to the Cannes Film Festival for the presentation of the film.
In Renzo e Luciana, a young couple tries to hide their marriage and the wife's supposed pregnancy from the draconian book-keeper of their employer, who has banned female employees from getting married and having children but does not mind a few cheap thrills at their expense himself.
In Le Tentazioni del Dottor Antonio, an elderly citizen is fed up with too much immorality in the form of indecent content in print. His anger knows no bounds when a provocative billboard of Anita Ekberg advertising 'Drink more milk' is put up in a park near his residence. Little does he know how that billboard will go on to change his life. The image begins to haunt him with hallucinations in which she appears as a temptress and Dr. Antonio as St. George, to spear the dragon.
Il Lavoro is about an aristocratic couple coming to terms with life and marriage after the husband is caught visiting prostitutes by the press.
La Riffa shows a lottery with the winner entitled to one night with the attractive Zoe (Sophia Loren). Zoe. however, has other plans.
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