City of Women
Mar 28 1980
•2h 20m
•Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he’s entered a phantasmagoric world where women have taken power.
Cast
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Marcello Mastroianni
Snàporaz
Anna Prucnal
Elena, the wife
Bernice Stegers
The lady on the train
Donatella Damiani
Donatella, the dancing girl
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