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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Giancarlo Giannini | ... | Pasqualino Frafuso aka Settebellezze | |
| Fernando Rey | ... | Pedro the Anarchist Prisoner | |
| Shirley Stoler | ... | The Prison Camp Commandant | |
| Elena Fiore | ... | Concettina, a Sister | |
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Piero Di Iorio | ... | Francesco - Pasqualino's comrade |
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Enzo Vitale | ... | Don Raffaele |
| Roberto Herlitzka | ... | Socialist | |
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Lucio Amelio | ... | Lawyer |
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Ermelinda De Felice | ... | Pasqualino's Mother |
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Bianca D'Origlia | ... | The Psychiatrist |
| Francesca Marciano | ... | Carolina (as Francesca Marciani) | |
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Mario Conti | ... | Totonno '18 Carati' - Concettina's pimp |
| Barbara Valmorin | ... | The Prison Camp Commandant's Secretary | |
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Emilio Salvatore | ||
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Aristide Caporale | ... | Madman (as Aristide Caporali) |
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Pasqualino, an Italian everyman, deserts the army during World War II. Germans capture him and send him to a prison camp, where he does just about anything to survive. In lengthy flashbacks, we see him and his family of seven unattractive sisters (the seven beauties), his accidental murder of one sister's lover, his confession and imprisonment, his calculated switch to an asylum, his rape of a patient, and his volunteering to be a soldier to escape confinement. To the chagrin of his obese German captor, his weak and cowardly character enables him to survive the war and return to Naples where he has a plan to survive the next world catastrophe. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Country:
ItalyRelease Date:
21 January 1976 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Seven Beauties See more »Filming Locations:
Naples, Campania, ItalyEdit
Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$1,536, 16 April 2017Gross USA:
$12,408Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$12,408Company Credits
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Pasqualino Frafuso: [while looking out of his jail cell] A rotten comedy, a lousy farce... called living.See more »
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I saw "Seven Beauties" when I was in college back in 1976. It immediately became my favorite film and stayed that way for 20 years. Now that I am older, I have moved it down the list a bit, but I still love it. I especially love the music and the music scenes. For 20 years I searched for a soundtrack album but never found it. Finally, my brother recommended the obvious: rent the movie and copy the music to an audio tape. The music I am thinking of is in three scenes: the opening montage with the "Oh, yeah" song (which works much better in Italian--don't bother with the dubbed version); the strolling/strutting around the town scene (music only, no lyrics, no dialogue); and the court scene (music only, no lyrics, no dialogue). Those three scenes will stay with me the rest of my life.