Seven Beauties
(1975)
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Seven Beauties
(1975)
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Giancarlo Giannini | ... |
Pasqualino Frafuso aka Settebellezze
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Fernando Rey | ... |
Pedro the Anarchist Prisoner
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Shirley Stoler | ... |
The Prison Camp Commandant
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Elena Fiore | ... |
Concettina, a Sister
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Piero Di Iorio | ... |
Francesco - Pasqualino's comrade
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Enzo Vitale | ... |
Don Raffaele
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Roberto Herlitzka | ... |
Socialist
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Lucio Amelio | ... |
Lawyer
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Ermelinda De Felice | ... |
Pasqualino's Mother
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Bianca D'Origlia | ... |
The Psychiatrist
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Francesca Marciano | ... |
Carolina
(as Francesca Marciani)
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Mario Conti | ... |
Totonno '18 Carati' - Concettina's pimp
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Barbara Valmorin | ... |
The Prison Camp Commandant's Secretary
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Emilio Salvatori |
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Aristide Caporale | ... |
Madman
(as Aristide Caporali)
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Pasqualino, an Italian everyman, deserts the army during World War II. Germans capture him and send him to a prison camp, where he does just about anything to survive. In lengthy flashbacks, we see him and his family of seven unattractive sisters (the seven beauties), his accidental murder of one sister's lover, his confession and imprisonment, his calculated switch to an asylum, his rape of a patient, and his volunteering to be a soldier to escape confinement. To the chagrin of his obese German captor, his weak and cowardly character enables him to survive the war and return to Naples where he has a plan to survive the next world catastrophe. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
I saw this film in the late 70's and ran the entire gambit of emotions while viewing it. I never thought I could laugh at such violence and at the hideous Nazi acts of the concentration camps and at the same time feel like heaving my guts on the theatre floor. I am going to have to track down a DVD of this movie to watch it again.
As good as Shindlers list was, I found it pale by comparison to "The seven Beauties". It is a wild ride and I can not recommend this film highly enough.
What disturbs me is that I have yet to talk to another person who has seen this movie.
And a side note: Madona should be crucified for remaking Swept Away.
Charlie