The Birds, the Bees and the Italians

Signore e signori, feature film, 1965.

DIRECTED BY: Pietro Germi

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians

CAST:
Virna Lisi (Milena Zulian),
Gastone Moschin (Osvaldo Bisigato),
Alberto Lionello (Toni Gasparini),
Olga Villi (Ippolita Gasparini),
Beba Lončar (Noemi Castellan)

SCRIPT:
Pietro Germi,
Agenore Incrocci,
Furio Scarpelli,
Luciano Vincenzoni

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Aiace Parolin

Synopsis:
This is an omnibus about love problems of middle-aged men from Italian provincial towns. The first story is about a womanizer who pretends in front of a doctor that he suffers from impotency so as to seduce the doctor’s wife. The second story is about a married man who leaves his wife for a young waitress, but persecuted for adultery, he is soon forced to leave the country. In the third story, a villager decides to sue several rich men for seducing his daughter. He gets offered money to withdraw his accusations.

b/w, 35 mm, 115 min