DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE - KINOMANIA 2024
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Year: 1962
Production: European
KINOMANIA 2024
DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE - Italy, 1962, 104‘
Director: Pietro Germi
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni (Ferdinando Cefalù), Daniela Rocca (Rosalia Cefalù), Stefania
Sandrelli (Angela), Leopoldo Trieste (Carmelo Patanè), Odoardo Spadaro (Don Gaetano
Cefalù), Margherita Girelli (Sisina)
Selected awards:
Oscar 1963 - Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen (Ennio De
Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, Pietro Germi), nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role
(Marcelo Mastroianni) and Best Director (Pietro Germi); BAFTA 1964 - Best Foreign Actor
(Marcello Mastroianni), nominations for Best Film from any Source and Best Foreign Actress
(Daniela Rocca); Cannes 1962 - Best Comedy, nomination for Golden Palm; Golden Globes
1963 - Best Actor - Comedy or Musical (Marcello Mastroianni), Best Foreign Film
Ferdinando Cefalù (Marcello Mastroianni) is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela (Stefania
Sandrelli), but he is married to Rosalia (Daniela Rocca) 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.
Germis film makes brilliant dark-grey comedy of many aspects of Sicilian life outside the
strictly sexual, honourable or murderous, and has a magnificently surprising performance
from Marcello Mastroianni, who, abandoning his familiarly un-Latin appearance, has grown a
downcast-looking moustache and a melancholy air to match it, sleeked his bouncy hair into a
horrible japanned block, and acquired a very faint tic on one side of his mouth that assaults
him in moments of excitement. For his performance he became the first male actor
nominated for an Oscar for a foreign language performance.
