Boccaccio '70 (1962)

Directors:

Vittorio De Sica
Federico Fellini

Writers:

Giovanni Arpino (segment)
Italo Calvino (segment)

Release Date:

26 June 1962 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Fantasy | Romance

Plot:

Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana...

Plot Keywords:

Billboard | Apostrophe In Title | Digit In Title | Episodic | Amusement Park

Cast

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")

Also Known As:

Boccaccio '70 (USA)
Boccace 70 (France)

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

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:PG | Hungary:18 | Netherlands:12 (2004) (DVD) | Netherlands:9 (2009) (DVD) | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | Italy:VM14 | Sweden:15 | UK:X | USA:Unrated | Germany:6 (re-rating) | West Germany:18

Filming Locations:

E.U.R., Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Cineriz

Trivia:

When Mario Monicelli's segment, "Renzo e Luciana", was cut, producer Carlo Ponti offered to finance the Monicelli film as a full-length feature on its own. This was never realized. This segment was apparently cut because Monicelli promised to deliver a "major American star" but failed in this endeavor, thus his film became cast with mostly unknowns. When the film premiered at Cannes, it was jeered by critics and filmmakers after they became informed of the news about Monicelli's unjustly removed segment.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Mafioso (1962)

Soundtrack:

Soldi soldi soldi

Finally out on DVD !!!! But...

Words are not enough for this wonderful quadruple satire. Yes, in the beginning there were FOUR, but the Mario Monicelli story got cut to economize on time. It is the least funny but very compelling tale of two newlyweds finding no space or time to be alone together. A beautiful story.

On the DVD distributed by the Dutch label Homescreen all 4 stories are included. Very odd though, it is a widescreen version, but from the top & bottom there are layers missing. So all the players standing up, get there heads chopped of. Astonishing, and very irritating. The sound every now and then echos, which is bad too. And the only subtitles available are in Dutch...

But to see these wonderful tales again, of Fellini, Visconti, De Sica & Monicelli, and to see Romy Schneider, Sophia Loren & Anita Ekberg play so majestically, might be well worth it to forget about the technical problems of this DVD. And let's simply hope CRITERION can obtain the rights shortly, for they will surely do this fourfold little miracle justice...