Wondrous Boccaccio
Feb 26 2015
•2h 56m
•Comedy, History, Drama, Romance
It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.
Cast
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Lello Arena
Duca Tancredi
Paola Cortellesi
Badessa Usimbalda
Carolina Crescentini
Isabetta
Flavio Parenti
Nicoluccio Cacciamanico
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