Innocence and Desire (1974)
"Innocenza e turbamento" (original title)

A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife.

Director:

Massimo Dallamano

Writers:

Gianfranco Clerici (screenplay), Gianfranco Clerici (story),

Stars:

Edwige Fenech, Vittorio Caprioli, Roberto Cenci

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Edwige Fenech	...	Carmela Paternò
Vittorio Caprioli	...	Vincenzo Niscemi
Roberto Cenci	...	Tonino Niscemi
Lionel Stander	...	Salvatore Niscemi
Anna Maria Pescatori	...	Lola
Eleonora Morana	...	Rosalia
Giancarlo Badessi	...	The Rector of seminary
Enzo Andronico	...	The Chauffeur
Nerina Montagnani	...	Lola's Servant
Giovanna Di Vita
Pasquale Fasciano	...	Carmela's Father
Leonardo D'Allura
Lorenzo Piani
Luigi Antonio Guerra

Storyline

A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife.

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Plot Keywords:

car | marriage | bare breasts | hen | female masturbation | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

21 March 1974 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Athootita kai diastrofi

Company Credits

Production Co:

Italian International Film, Paneuropean Production Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min

Color:

Color (Telecolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Italian censorship visa # 64168 delivered on 15-3-1974.

User Reviews

Massimo Dallamano annd Edwige Fenech

There's no doubt that this movie was inspired by the Salvatore Samperi-Laura Antonelli classic "Malizia" as other reviewers mentioned. But it should be said that "Malizia" really inspired an entire subgenre of "incestuous" Italian sex comedies in the 1970's. Not only were there numerous movies of adolescent boys losing their virginity to step-mothers, aunts, and even step-GRANDMOTHERS (in "Grazie Nonna", another Edwige Fenech vehicle), but there might have been even MORE movies about female adolescent "lolitas" seducing their mother's boyfriends, step-fathers, uncles or even actual fathers! ( I guess they REALLY liked to keep it in the family in 1970's Italy). Of course, in the typical sexist Italian fashion of that era all these ribald stories were told from the point of a view of the male protagonist whether he be an impressionable adolescent pounced on by a "cougar" or a beleaguered older man unable to resist a nubile, underaged vixen. (Perhaps the one exception was the curious Gloria Guida film "Peccati di Juventud" where an oversexed teenage GIRL seduces her step-MOTHER into a LESBIAN affair).

This all may sound pretty unsavory to the uninitiated, but one of the saving graces of these movies was that the "adolescents" in them (with the notable exception of the young boy in the original "Malizia") were obviously quite a bit older than the characters they played. The perennial "lolita" actresses like Gloria Guida, Ornella Muti, and Jenny Tamburi were actually in their early twenties at the time, and their male equivalent this movie, Robert Cenci (who really got typecast in these "younger man" type roles), looked even older than that. Nor, of course, were the "older women" ever typical frumpy middle-age types or for that matter even middle-aged at all (Edwige Fenech was actually only 25 or 26 here).

There's nothing really ORIGINAL about this movie, of course,, but there are two good reasons to see it (well, three if you count each of Fenech's breasts). One, of course, is the gorgeous and talented Fenech, but the other is Massimo Dallamano, who remains THE most underrated Italian genre director of the era. Bava, Argento, and Fulci have always gotten their due, as have Sergio Martino and Ferdinand Dileo more recently. Dallamano, a former cinematographer, died pretty young unfortunately, but he directed a whole string of interesting films in various genres from the late 60's to the time of his death in 1976. A Dallamano film with Fenech is itself worth the price of admission, even in this strange and somewhat disreputable Italian comedy subgenre.