| Divorce Italian Style | |
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| Directed by | Pietro Germi |
| Screenplay by | Ennio De Concini Pietro Germi Alfredo Giannetti Agenore Incrocci (uncredited) |
| Based on | Un delitto d'onore 1960 novel by Giovanni Arpino |
| Produced by | Franco Cristaldi |
| Starring | Marcello Mastroianni Daniela Rocca Stefania Sandrelli Leopoldo Trieste Odoardo Spadaro |
| Cinematography | Carlo Di Palma Leonida Barboni |
| Edited by | Roberto Cinquini |
| Music by | Carlo Rustichelli |
| Distributed by | Embassy Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
| Box office | $2.3 million (US/Canada rentals)[1] |
Divorce Italian Style (Italian: Divorzio all'italiana) is a 1961 Italian black comedy film directed by Pietro Germi. The screenplay is by Germi, Ennio De Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, and Agenore Incrocci, based on Giovanni Arpino's novel Un delitto d'onore (English title A Crime of Honor). It stars Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Lando Buzzanca, and Leopoldo Trieste.
It received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, two Golden Globe Awards and numerous other International film prizes. In 2008, the film was included in the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[2]
- ^ "'Divorce-Italian Style,' $2,252,013". Variety. February 19, 1964. p. 5.
- ^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 2021-03-11.