Seven Beauties
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.
R
HD
Comedy, Drama, War
1975
115 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : Seven Beauties
- Duration : 115 min
- Languages : Italian, German, Neapolitan, Spanish
- Writers : Lina Wertmèller
- Directors : Lina Wertmèller min
- Imdb : 7.9 (3343 votes)
- Tomatoes : 4 (2047 votes)
- Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore
Movie Storyline
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.