Seduced and Abandoned (1964)
Sedotta e abbandonata
The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiancé, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father.
- Date of release
- 1964-01-30
- TMDB
- 7.7 / 10 (183)
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Director
- Pietro Germi
Casting
- Stefania Sandrelli — Agnese Ascalone
- Saro Urzì — Don Vincenzo Ascalone
- Aldo Puglisi — Peppino Califano
- Lando Buzzanca — Antonio Ascalone
- Lola Braccini — Amalia Califano
- Leopoldo Trieste — Barone Rizieri
- Umberto Spadaro — il cugino di Ascalone
- Paola Biggio — Matilde Ascalone
- Rocco D'Assunta — Orlando Califano
- Salvatore Fazio — Don Mariano
- Oreste Palella — Maresciallo dei carabinieri Polenza
- Lina Lagalla — Francesca Ascalone
Interesting facts
Seduced and Abandoned is a 1964 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Pietro Germi. The film is a dark satire of Sicilian social custom of bride kidnapping presented as elopement, and the Italian laws of the time on honor killing and "honor-repairing wedding". It belongs to a trilogy on Italian customs with Divorce, Italian Style and The Birds, the Bees and the Italians.
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