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Watch: Divorzio all’italiana 1961 123movies, Full Movie Online – Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected..
Plot: Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.
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Classico!
Definitely a classic film, but not just an Italian classic! “Divorzio all’italiana” centers itself around Ferdinando Cefalù (Mastroianni), a 37 year old baron in a small town. Although he’s a baron, his life is not completely perfect as his father has squandered much of their money, and his extremely clingy wife Rosalia stands between him and the only thing he loves, his 16 year old cousin Angela. To add salt to the wound, 1960’s Italy does not allow couples to divorce, which leads Ferdinando to seek desperate measures. After a town scandal erupts, when a woman murders her cheating husband to protect her honor, Ferdinando is inspired to set up his wife with a lover in order to kill her and “protect his honor.” The rest of the movie chronicles Ferdinando’s attempts to find someone who would fit the bill.

“Divorzio all’italiana” is a satirical look at Italian society and its seemingly backward laws which force people to do stupid things and its fallibility at justice. In its social commentary of Italian laws/society, Concini, Germi, and Giannetti (the writers) create well fitted, stereotypical characters that are much needed in order for the message of the film to get across. Ferdinando plays the evil nobleman, Rosalia as the annoying wife, Angela as the desirable secret teen lover, etc. The beauty of the story not only lies in it’s scathingly funny humor, with Ferdinando’s clever plotting and hallucinations of killing his wife, but also in its ability to transcend time. Nowadays there are no laws that forbid divorce in most societies, but even though that crucial point does not relate to modern audiences, the film is still able to conjure emotions for the characters’ plight. Another great thing about the film, is the idea of a protagonist character with typically antagonist characteristics. Ferdinando is definitely a bad man, but the story plays with the audience in making them want Ferdinando to succeed in his plot. To add to the underlying theme of the film, the failure of Italian laws, is the theme of “justice” whether it be from the law or from a simple reversal of fate. Definitely watch the film up to the very end, as it closes with an ironic yet justified twist of fate for the characters involved.

“In my heart, I’ll always be yours!”
This Italian movie is a hoot, primarily because it’s filmed as if it would be something of a drama, but is in fact a hilarious send up of a man who plans on killing his wife so he can marry his younger cousin by twenty years! Marcello Mastroianni brings a comic sensibility to his role as Baron Ferdinando Cefalù, the prim and almost snobbish husband of Rosalia (Daniela Rocca). Even though I thought Rosalia was amorously overbearing toward her husband, I didn’t think she was all that bad looking, at least with what a dab of depilatory cream on her upper lip could have taken care of. But after twelve years of marriage, ‘Fefe’ only had eyes for his sixteen year old cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli). Early on I thought Angela would have fended off Ferdinando’s advances, but for reasons I can’t fathom, wound up in a tryst with the Baron in a field of flowers before rejoining her own family picnic.

Eventually, because Fefe remains cool toward his wife’s advances, she succumbs to an attraction she once had with a man who’s now married with three kids. She doesn’t know it at the time, but even when it comes out in the wash, she’s off and running with her Carmelo ( Leopoldo Trieste). To me, all of this felt like it was being handled in mock seriousness, with Mastroianni’s character resembling Peter Sellers’ Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series of films. Even the town of Agramonte’s citizens demonstrated disdain for the way Ferdinando had been cuckolded, having been shamed by his wife’s desertion.

However having researched how he might pull off the revenge murder of his wife, the Baron ambiguously succeeds in killing her, while her suitor is shot by HIS wife! The thing is, you had to know that even after Ferdinando served his lenient three year prison sentence, his marriage to Angela would be fraught with eventual discord, demonstrated in that final scene of Angela playing footsie with the boatman. With all that had gone before, you couldn’t even call it ironic, it just fit in with the twisted ambiance of the entire picture.

Other Information:

Original Language it
Runtime 1 hr 45 min (105 min), 1 hr 44 min (104 min) (UK)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director Pietro Germi
Writer Alfredo Giannetti, Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli
Country Italy
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 12 wins & 9 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Co. System)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Eclair Paris (french subtitling: original version with subtitles), Istituto Nazionale Luce [it]
Film Length 2,853 m (France), 3,240 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm