Divorce Italian Style is a 1961 Italian comedy directed by Pietro Germi, starring Marcello Mastroianni as a Sicilian nobleman who, unable to divorce under Italian law at the time, schemes to arrange his wife's adultery so he can murder her and claim the lenient legal defense of a crime of honor. The film satirizes Italian marriage law, aristocratic decline and small town hypocrisy through dark comic exaggeration rather than direct social commentary. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and is credited with helping popularize the commedia all'italiana genre of Italian film comedy.
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is a 1961 Italian black comedy film directed by Pietro Germi
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is a 1961 Italian black comedy film directed by Pietro Germi
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It won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and is credited with helping popularize the commedia all'italiana genre of Italian film comedy.
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Divorce Italian Style (Italian: Divorzio all'italiana) is a 1961 Italian black comedy film directed by Pietro Germi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Alfredo Giannetti, Ennio De Concini, and Agenore Incrocci, based on Giovanni Arpino's 1960 novel Un delitto d'onore (English title: A Crime of Honor).
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Divorce Italian Style (Italian: Divorzio all'italiana) is a 1961 Italian black comedy film directed by Pietro Germi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Alfredo Giannetti, Ennio De Concini, and Agenore Incrocci, based on Giovanni Arpino's 1960 novel Un delitto d'onore (English title: A Crime of Honor).
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