Bordella (1976)

Director:

Pupi Avati

Writers:

Antonio Avati (writer)
Pupi Avati (writer)

Release Date:

23 January 1976 (Italy)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical

Plot:

The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their activities in Italy...

Cast

Al Lettieri	...	Eddie Mordace
Gigi Proietti	...	Ivanoe
Christian De Sica	...	Ugolino
Gianni Cavina	...	Adone
Taryn Power	...	Olimpia
Vladek Sheybal	...	Francesco
George Eastman	...	Simbad (as Luigi Montefiori)
Maurizio Bonuglia	...	Gualtiero
Rosemarie Lindt	...	Moglie di Gualtiero
Greta Vayan		(as Greta Vaillant)
Giselda Castrini	...	Dattilografa
Marcello Casco
Alida Cappellini
Paolo Graldi
Ferdinando Orlandi

Also Known As:

House of Pleasure for Women (International: English title)

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

English | Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Italy:VM14

Company:

Euro International Film (EIA)

Trivia:

The Invisible Man declares that his name is "Antelope Cobbler". In Italy, in the seventies, in the Lockheed Affair, Antelope Cobbler was the name under which an important Italian politician hid. As a result of the Lockheed Affair the Italian President Leone resigned.

Soundtrack:

Come facette mammete

A morally and politically incorrect musical. Funny!

This is a virtually unknown movie. I taped it off a test feed by an Italian pay TV, many years ago. No wonder, cause it deals with prostitution and sexual violence, contains nudity, defines international drug traffic and other crimes as official US government activities... it even had censorship problems.

The story: women in the rapidly evolving Italian society of the first seventies want to have their sexual appetites satisfied, and the "American Love Company" corporation is not going to miss the opportunity, so they send a veteran of the field to estabilish a new branch and recruit local workforce. Expect a lot of nonsense, random references to famous films and characters, and a light hearted approach to just about everything.

The inversion of roles between male and female triggers many funny situations and bad jokes, but the atmosphere is quite different from the typical Italian B-movie of the same age: "Bordella" is more original, daring and better produced. It also contains the most humorous suicide attempt you can think of.

Italians looking at the cast overview will be surprised to find so many locally famous names. Their performance is good, considering the genre. The soundtrack could well suit a gangster movie, all the songs are cool.

Don't miss the opportunity to see this movie (that is, if you have any), and see how "The Full Monty" could have been written twenty years earlier.