Secret Fantasy (1971)
Il merlo maschio
Niccolò Vivaldi is a cello player and he plays in Arena di Verona Orchestra. But he is not the first and neither the second cello. He is frustrated. Nobody can remember his face, nor his name. Niccolò is married to Costanza, who is really beautiful and he takes some pictures of her naked. Later he shows the pictures to a friend and so he feels better. He starts to write a comic opera called "Il merlo maschio" only to discover later he had written Rossini's "La gazza ladra". To maintain his self-esteem he can only show his wife...
- Date of release
- 1971-09-22
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (35)
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Pasquale Festa Campanile
Casting
- Lando Buzzanca — Niccolo Vivaldi
- Laura Antonelli — Costanza Vivaldi
- Lino Toffolo — Cavalmoretti
- Ferruccio De Ceresa — The psychanalyst
- Gianrico Tedeschi — Orchestra conductor
- Elsa Vazzoler — Costanza's mother
- Gino Cavalieri — Costanza's father
- Felicita Fanny — Whore
- Edda Ferronao — Costanza's relative
- Corrado Olmi — Violin teacher
- Aldo Puglisi — Chemist
- Luciano Bianciardi — Mazzacurati
Interesting facts
Secret Fantasy, known as The Naked Cello in the United Kingdom, is an Italian film in the commedia sexy all'italiana style, and presents a theme of candaulism, which was very rare at the time. It was filmed in 1971 by director Pasquale Festa Campanile, and starred Laura Antonelli and Lando Buzzanca.
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