Boccaccio '70
Feb 23 1962
•3h 24m
•Comedy, Romance
An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
Cast
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Marisa Solinas
Luciana (segment "Renzo e Luciana")
Anita Ekberg
Anita (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
Romy Schneider
Pupe (segment "Il lavoro")
Sophia Loren
Zoe (segment "La riffa")
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