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Seduced And Abandoned (DVD)

APPROX. 117 MINS. - PROD. YEAR: 1964 - MPA RATING: NR

DVD Specifications

Release date: Aug 29, 2006
Studio: Criterion/Voyager
Year: 1964
Video: Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Anamorphic - Enhanced for Widescreen TVs.
Audio: Italian: Dolby Digital 1.0
Genre:
Subtitles: English

Special Features

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer
  • Commedia all'italiana, Germi Style, featuring new interviews with screenwriters Furio Scarpelli and Luciano Vincenzoni and Italian film scholar Mario Sesti
  • Interviews with actors Stefania Sandrelli and Lando Buzzanca
  • Stefania Sandrelli screen test
  • Theatrical trailer
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Irene Bignardi

Synopsis

Shotgun weddings, kidnapping, attempted murder, emergency dental work—the things Don Vincenzo (Saro Urzì) will do to restore his family’s honor! Pietro Germi’s Seduced and Abandoned (Sedotta e abbandonata) was the follow-up to his international sensation Divorce Italian Style, and in many ways it’s even more audacious—a rollicking yet raw series of escalating comic calamities that ensue in a small village when sixteen-year-old Agnese (the beautiful Stefania Sandrelli) loses her virginity at the hands of her sister’s lascivious fiancé. Merciless and mirthful, Seduced and Abandoned skewers Sicilian social customs and pompous patriarchies with a sly, devilish grin.

Cast & Crew


Criterion/Voyager presents
Stefania SandrelliAldo PuglisiLando BuzzancaWandjuk MarikaLeopoldo TriesteNorman KayRoy Marika

"Seduced And Abandoned"

Written byLuciano VincenzoniWritten byPietro GermiWritten byAge-Scarpelliproduced byFranco Cristaldi
directed byPietro Germidirected byHenning von Gierke
Production Year: 1964
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