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Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.
Ratings
IMDb7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes65%
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
160 audience votes
Key crew
- Lina WertmüllerWriter
- Lina WertmüllerDirector
- Enzo JannacciOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Giancarlo GianniniPasqualino Frafuso aka Settebellezze
- Fernando ReyPedro the Anarchist Prisoner
- Shirley StolerCommandant
- Elena FioreConcettina, a Sister
- Roberto Herlitzkathe socialist
- Piero Di IorioFrancesco - Pasqualino's comrade
- Enzo VitaleDon Raffaele
- Ermalinda De FelicePasqualino's mother
- Lucio Ameliothe lawyer
- Aldo VallettiMadman (uncredited)
- Francesca MarcianoCarolina
- Mario ContiTotonno
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Themes
armyfightconcentration campworld war iinaples, italygerman officersisterthiefhonorwoman director1940s