Divorce Italian style [WorldCat Entities]

"Divorzio all'italiano"
"Pietro Germi's Divorzio all'italiana"
"Divorce Italian style"
"Original title"
"Divorzio all'italiana"

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"SUMMARY: "Baron Fefé Cefalù is a Sicilian nobleman bored of life and of wife Rosalia: he falls in love with young and beautiful cousin Angela, who spends summers in the same palace. Since divorce is impossible in Italy in the 1960s, he decides to kill the wife, knowing that sentence would be very light if he proved that he committed murder for a matter of honour, i.e. when he found the wife together with another man. Therefore, he starts finding a lover for Rosalia, using Carmelo Patané, a painter well-known by her." IMDB"
"An Italian baron who is tired of his clinging wife, fantasizes about killing her as there is no divorce in Italy. He falls madly in love with his innocent young niece and begins to plan in earnest to kill his wife in a fit of passion when he finds her unfaithful to him. First he must arrange for his wife to have a lover so that she may be unfaithful."
""Ferdinando Cefalù, an impoverished Sicilian nobleman, returns home to his once elegant family mansion. Bored to frustration by his nagging wife, Rosalia, he falls in love with his 16-year-old cousin, Angela. Since divorce is impossible under Italian law, he resigns himself to imagining different ways of doing away with his plump, mustached wife. An encounter with Angela in the garden further inflames his desire, but Angela's father disapproves of the situation and sends her away to a convent. One day Ferdinando discovers another law by which a person who commits murder in defense of his honor is subject to only a light jail sentence. Ferdinando asks Carmelo Patanè, an obscure painter and a former beau of Rosalia, to restore some frescoes in the Cefalù house in order to bring him into contact with her. Although Carmelo is timid and wary, a romance appears to be developing, but Ferdinando's plan collapses when the couple run off together, disgracing Ferdinando beyond his own expectations. He has no choice but to find the lovers and redeem his honor. Meanwhile, Carmelo's abandoned wife has learned of the affair, and she also tracks them down and kills her husband, while Ferdinando permanently disposes of the troublesome Rosalia. Ferdinando happily receives an 18-month prison sentence, after which he quickly returns home to marry Angela. Making love on their honeymoon cruise, he is unaware that Angela is secretly planning a romance with the handsome young sailor at the helm"--AFI catalog, 1961-1970."
"A married man who has fallen in love with a younger woman hatches an elaborate scheme to kill his wife."
"A middle-aged Sicilian nobleman has grown tired of his wife and wishes to marry his teenage cousin. Since there's no divorce in Italy, he must find another way to get rid of his wife ..."
"In this black comedy, an Italian man approaching middle age falls in love with his young cousin but, as a Catholic, can't divorce his wife. However, he can justifiably murder her if he catches her with a lover. The problem is to find her one first."
"An Italian baron who is tired of his clinging wife fantasizes about killing her as there is no divorce in Italy. He falls madly in love with his innocent young niece and develops a plan to kill his wife in a fit of passion when he finds her unfaithful to him. First, however, he must arrange for his wife to have a lover so that she may be unfaithful."
"Baron Pepe Cafalu, a man approaching middle age, is tired of his fatuous and fawning wife and begins to direct his amorous attentions toward his teeenage cousin. In Italy a divorce is out of the question, so he figures his only way out is murder. By law, Pepe can kill his wife with impunity *if* he can catch her cheating with her lover ... but first he must find her one!"
"Baron Ferdinando Cefal (Marcello Mastroianni) longs to marry his nubile young cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli), but one obstacle stands in his way: his fatuous and fawning wife, Rosalia (Daniela Rocca). His solution? Since divorce is illegal, he hatches a plan to lure his spouse into the arms of another and then murder her in a justifiable effort to save his honor. The Criterion Collection is proud to present director Pietro Germi's hilarious and cutting satire of Sicilian male-chauvinist culture, winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay."
"A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife."