Marriage Italian Style

Marriage Italian Style
Italian theatrical release poster
ItalianMatrimonio all'italiana
Directed byVittorio De Sica
Screenplay by
Based onFilumena Marturano
by Eduardo De Filippo
Produced byCarlo Ponti
Starring
CinematographyRoberto Gerardi
Edited byAdriana Novelli
Music byArmando Trovajoli
Production
companies
  • Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
  • Les Films Concordia
Distributed by
  • Interfilm (Italy)
  • SNC (France)
Release dates
  • 19 December 1964 (1964-12-19) (Italy)
  • 30 December 1964 (1964-12-30) (France)
Running time
102 minutes
Countries
  • Italy
  • France
Languages
  • Italian
  • Neapolitan
Box office
  • $3.7 million (Italy)[1]
  • $4.1 million (US and Canada rentals)[2]
  • $9.1 million (US and Canada)[3]

Marriage Italian Style (Italian: Matrimonio all'italiana [matriˈmɔːnjo allitaˈljaːna]) is a 1964 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.[4]

The film was adapted by Leonardo Benvenuti, Renato Castellani, Piero De Bernardi, and Tonino Guerra from the play Filumena Marturano by Eduardo De Filippo. Filumena Marturano had previously been adapted as a 1950 Argentine film.

  1. ^ "Top Italian Film Grossers". Variety. 11 October 1967. p. 33.
  2. ^ "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. 7 January 1976. p. 50.
  3. ^ Balio, Tino (2010). "Variety's All-Time Foreign Language Films to 2000". The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946–1973. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-2992-4793-5.
  4. ^ "NY Times: Marriage Italian-Style". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2009.