A Woman on Fire

A Woman on Fire (1969)

Brucia, ragazzo, brucia

How do you tell your husband you have an emptiness only another man can fill?

Clara, the sexually frustrated wife of a businessman goes on vacation with her husband, daughter and best friend. While there, she finally learns that sex can be passionate and wonderful, something she was never able to discover with the help of her husband. Unfortunately, she learns this with a handsome lifeguard, who finally makes her succumb to his psycho-sexual games.

Date of release
1969-02-05
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Drama
Director
Fernando Di Leo

Casting

Interesting facts

A Woman on Fire (Italian: Brucia, ragazzo, brucia is a 1969 Italian erotic-drama film written and directed by Fernando Di Leo.

Production

A Woman on Fire was an Italian film and was the first film production from the Rome-based company Ferti Film. Ferti film was founded by Fernando Di Leo and Tiziano Longo on July 24, 1968 and was named after the two.

The film was written by Di Leo and Antonio Racioppi a filmmaker and who at the time was mostly focused on stage direction and would return to filmmaking in the 1970s. The film was also the first film Di Leo would work on where he personally handled the financing. The picture was made on a budget of about 120 million Italian lire. To reach an audience beyond Italy, Di Leo cast the French actors Françoise Prévost and Michel Bardinet.

Filming took place in Fregene and at Elios Film Studios and began on September 2, 1968.

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