Synopsis
Vittorio De Sica’s Marriage Italian Style, based on the play by Neapolitan author Eduardo De Filippo, “Filumena Marturano”, features Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in an emblematic portrait of Italian society in postwar Italy. Domenico, a successful businessman with an eye for the girls, begins an affair with Filumena when she is still only 17 years old. She becomes a sex worker, but also becomes Domenico's mistress. He eventually sets her up in an apartment, and she works for him in his various businesses. She secretly bears three children, who are raised by nannies. Domenico starts planning to marry a young employee, and Filumena tricks him into marriage by pretending to be dying. Domenico annuls the marriage; Filumena then tells him of the three children. She says that one of the children belongs to Domenico, but will not say which one is his. Could all of them be his? Domenico marries Filumena again, this time willingly.
Restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and the Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage, with support from Memory Cinéma.
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Cast
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Tecla Scarano
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Producer
Carlo Ponti
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Screenplay
Renato Castellani, Tonino Guerra, Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi
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Cinematography
Roberto Gerardi
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Editing
Adriana Novelli
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Sound
Ennio Sensi
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Music
Armando Trovajoli