Strange Occasion
1976 Italian film
- 23 December 1976 (1976-12-23)
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Quelle strane occasioni, internationally released as Strange Occasion, is a 1976 Italian anthology comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Luigi Magni. Loy didn't accept to sign his segment, Italian Superman, that results directed by "Anonimo" (Anonymous).[1]
Plot
First segment
Giobatta and Piera are a couple of Italian immigrants in the Netherlands, who barely earn a living selling castagnaccio to the locals. While checking his pockets during a night robbery, some muggers discover Giobatta is well-endowed and take him to the owner of a nightclub, who forcibly hires him as a live sex performer, unbeknownst to Piera. While the profits improve the couple's livelihood, their sexual life suffers. When Piera finds out about Giobatta's moonlighting, she allows him to continue on the condition that she be the female performer. Seeing as Giobatta is too shy to perform with Piera in public, the nightclub owner demotes him to doorman and hires another male performer for Piera.
Second segment
When Antonio's wife and daughter go on holiday, Cristina, a Swedish girl, knocks on his door. The two fall in love and have sex. The day after, Cristina, believing that Antonio has a very clear conception of sex, tells him that his wife had sex with her father.
Third segment
In Rome, a bishop: Ascanio, is stuck in the elevator of a building with a beautiful woman. The bishop was going to see his mistress, but now he is stuck, and then Ascanio goes having a chat with the woman about sexual matters, expressing all his indignation at the manner in which the Italians of that time approach to sex. The woman manifests sound moral principles; but at the end, when the elevator is unlocked, the contradictions of the two characters are shown.
Cast
- Paolo Villaggio: Giobatta
- Nino Manfredi: Antonio Pecoraro
- Alberto Sordi: Mons. Ascanio La Costa
- Stefania Sandrelli: Donatella
- Olga Karlatos: Giovanna
- Beba Lončar: Vedova Adami
- Valeria Moriconi: Giobatta's wife
- Jinny Steffan: Cristina
References
- ^ Enrico Giacovelli. La commedia all'italiana. Gremese Editore, 1995.
External links
- Strange Occasion at IMDb
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Films directed by Luigi Comencini
- Hey Boy (1948)
- The Emperor of Capri (1949)
- Behind Closed Shutters (1951)
- Heidi (1952)
- Girls Marked Danger (1953)
- La valigia dei sogni (1953)
- Bread, Love and Dreams (1953)
- Bread, Love and Jealousy (1954)
- The Belle of Rome (1955)
- The Window to Luna Park (1957)
- Husbands in the City (1957)
- Mogli pericolose (1958)
- Le sorprese dell'amore (1959)
- And That on Monday Morning (1959)
- Everybody Go Home (1960)
- On the Tiger's Back (1961)
- The Police Commissioner (1962)
- Bebo's Girl (1963)
- Three Nights of Love (1964)
- My Wife (1964)
- Don Camillo in Moscow (1965)
- Six Days a Week (1965)
- Le bambole (1965)
- Incompreso (1966)
- Italian Secret Service (1968)
- Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969)
- Senza sapere niente di lei (1969)
- The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972)
- The Scientific Cardplayer (1973)
- Somewhere Beyond Love (1974)
- Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974)
- The Sunday Woman (1975)
- Basta che non si sappia in giro (1976)
- Strange Occasion (1976)
- Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
- The Cat (1977)
- Traffic Jam (1978)
- Eugenio (1980)
- Cercasi Gesù (1982)
- Cuore (1984)
- La Storia (1986)
- A Boy from Calabria (1987)
- La Bohème (1988)
- Merry Christmas... Happy New Year (1989)
- Marcellino (1992)
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