Wertmüller, Lina, Belli, Agostina, Diberti, Luigi, Ferro, Turi, Giannini, Giancarlo, Melato, Mariangela	...	(Director)
Lina Wertmüller, Lina Wertmüller	...	(Writer)
Giancarlo Giannini	...	Carmelo Mardocheo
Mariangela Melato	...	Fiorella Meneghini
Turi Ferro	...	Don Calogero
Agostina Belli	...	Rosalia Capuzzo in Mardocheo
Luigi Diberti	...	Pippino
Elena Fiore	...	Amalia Finocchiaro
Tuccio Musumeci	...	Pasquale
Ignazio Pappalardo	...	Massaro 'Ntoni
Gianfranco Barra	...	Serg. Amilcare Finnocchiaro
Livia Giampalmo	...	Violetta, bancarelaia
Rosaria Rapisarda	...
Umberto Lentini	...
Salvatore Savasta	...
Ottorino Russo	...
Giovanni Cori	...

Comments: DIT 132

Summary: This 1972 film by Lina Wertmuller (Seven Beauties, Swept Away) is a wild farce of the Sicilian milieu. Mimi (who is a man) is forced to leave his hometown when he can no longer get work as a result of voting against the local strong arms in a "secret" ballot. In the big city he finds work, but also finds that life there is very much as corrupt as it was at home. He falls in love and has a child by his lover, and when forced to take a job in his hometown again, he must hide his lover and their son from his wife. When he is too tired to please his wife in bed after making love all day to his lover, she becomes pregnant by another man, setting off a chain of events that ultimately lead to a public revenge scene that possibly has no rival. What's even more amazing is that the film manages to portray a complex protagonist in a searing comedy. A must-see, especially if you'd like a lighter view of the same world portrayed in The Godfather. --James McGrath