The Winsome Widow

Aug 12, 1973

1h 38m

★ 4.5

Overview

After the death of Salvatore in a car accident, his beautiful wife Catherine is preparing to collect the enormous legacy but, because the deceased did not make a will and when he was alive was sterile, his wife’s legacy will benefit only if, within three hundred days established by law, she will give birth to a son.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Flora Film

Variety Film

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Cast

Caterina Prevosti

Edwige Fenech

Barone Carlo Niscemi

Carlo Giuffrè

Francesca, madre di Caterina

Didi Perego

Tano Santenocito

Guido Leontini

Nicolino Santenocito

Pino Ferrara

l'avvocato di Caterina

Franco Ressel

Salvatore Santenocito, marito di Caterina

Mario Maranzana

il notaio

Enzo Andronico

il domestico (as Renato Cecilia)

Fortunato Cecilia

Paola Arduini

seconda babysitter

Carla Mancini

Luigi Antonio Guerra

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

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