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Writers:
Giovanni Arpino (segment)
Italo Calvino (segment)
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Contact:
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Release Date:
26 June 1962 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance more
Plot:
Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana... more | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
'Paris' Coming to America
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User Comments:
Luchino Visconti dresses Romy Schnaider plus other stories. more

Cast

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Marisa Solinas ... Luciana (segment "Renzo e Luciana")
Germano Gilioli ... Renzo (segment "Renzo e Luciana")

Anita Ekberg ... Anita (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
Peppino De Filippo ... Dr. Antonio Mazzuolo (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
Romy Schneider ... Pupe (segment "Il lavoro")
Tomas Milian ... Conte Ottavio (segment "Il lavoro") (as Thomas Milian)
Romolo Valli ... Lawyer Zacchi (segment "Il lavoro")

Sophia Loren ... Zoe (segment "La riffa")
Luigi Giuliani ... Gaetano (segment "La riffa")
Alfio Vita ... Cuspet (segment "La riffa")
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Boccaccio '70 (USA)
Boccace 70 (France)
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Runtime:
Argentina:205 min | Germany:125 min (3 episodes) (cut) | Netherlands:158 min (3 episodes) | USA:150 min (3 episodes) (cut) | France:150 min (3 episodes) (cut) | 208 min (4 episodes)
Country:
Italy | France
Language:
Italian | German
Color:
Color (Technicolor/Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
E.U.R., Rome, Lazio, Italy more
Company:
Cineriz more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Federico Fellini's segment, "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio", was his first work in color. It and Fellini's contribution to L'amore in città (1953) along with his co-directed "Variety Lights" are the "1/2" alluded to in the title of (1963). more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
'I te vurria vasa' more

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7 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
Luchino Visconti dresses Romy Schnaider plus other stories., 14 November 2007
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Author: Ubaldo Martinez from United States

The one thing I remembered about "Bocaccio70" was Romy Schnaider getting dressed in front of a mirror, in front of us. The film in his 4 segments has much more, but nothing better than Romy Schnaider in the Visconti segment. She is exquisite of course but in Visconti's hands she is superlative. Visconti, like George Cukor, knew how to guide actresses to their best. In the Monicelli episode Renzo and Lucia search for their privacy and Monicelli, a remarkable director, today 92 and still at work, manages to give the most straight forward, no frills segment. Fellini goes overboard with a 50 feet tall Anita Eckberg and a rather clumsy indictment at middle class morality. The De Sica episode has Sophia Loren, virgin and whore. When Sophia Loren was in De Sica's hands she was at her best. Her sympathy here takes over the episode and it becomes a joyful tale of nonsensical innocence. But, just as I remembered Romy Schnaider and Visconti are responsible for making this lightweight oddity really worth while.

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