Marriage Italian Style

– In Naples, in the Second World War, the wolf businessman Domenico Soriano meets the seventeen years ..

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Movie
Rating:
7.50 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 42 Minutes
Release Year:
1964
Original Name:
Matrimonio all'italiana
Marriage Italian Style
Marriage Italian Style (1964) - Also known as Matrimonio all'italiana

In Naples, in the Second World War, the wolf businessman Domenico Soriano meets the seventeen years old whore Filumena Marturano in a brothel during an allied bombing. Two years later, in the post-war, they meet each other by chance and begin a long affair. For twenty-two years, Filumena is his mistress and administrates his shops in Naples while Domenico is traveling. When Domenico decides to marry the young cashier of his bakery, Filumena lures him as if she were near to death and he marries her. Later he annuls their matrimony, and she tells him that she has three sons that she raised secretly, one of them is his legitimate son but she does not disclose his identity. The middle-age Domenico uses the most different subterfuges trying to find which teenager might be his son.

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20 Dec 1964

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Italian

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Not Rated

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Domenico, a successfull businessman, with an eye for the girls, begins an affair with Filumena when she is 17 years old. She becomes a prostitute, but also becomes the mistress of Domenico. He eventually sets her up in an apartment, and she works for him in his various businesses. She secretly bears three children, who are raised by nannys. Domenico starts planning to marry a young employee. Filumena tricks him into marriage by pretending to be dying. Domenico annuls the marriage. Filumena then tells him of the three children. She says that one of the children belongs to Domenico, but will not say which one is his. You start to believe that all of the children could be his, and Domenico then marries Filumena again, this time willingly.

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Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 8 nominations.

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7.5/10

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