''Dirty Weekend'' ( it, Mordi e fuggi) is a 1973 Italian
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Dino Risi
Dino Risi (23 December 1916 – 7 June 2008) was an Italian film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of ''commedia all'italiana''.
Biography
Risi was born in Milan. He had an o ...
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Cast
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Marcello Mastroianni as Giulio Borsi
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Oliver Reed
Robert Oliver Reed (13 February 1938 – 2 May 1999) was an English actor known for his well-to-do, macho image and "hellraiser" lifestyle. After making his first significant screen appearances in Hammer Horror films in the early 1960s, his ...
as Fabrizo
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Carole André
Carole André-Smith (born 11 March 1953) is a French-Italian former actress. Her best known role was Kabir Bedi's love interest Lady Marianna, nicknamed "", in the successful RAI series ''Sandokan'' (1976). Since retiring from acting, she has b ...
as Danda
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Lionel Stander
Lionel Jay Stander (January 11, 1908 – November 30, 1994) was an American actor in films, radio, theater and television. He is best remembered for his role as majordomo Max on the 1980s mystery television series '' Hart to Hart''.
Early ...
as General
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Bruno Cirino as Raoul
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Nicoletta Machiavelli
Nicoletta Machiavelli (1 August 1944 – 15 November 2015) was an Italian film actress, also known as Nicoletta Rangoni Machiavelli and Nicoletta Macchiavelli.
Life and career
The daughter of a Florentine father and of an American mother, Mach ...
as Sylva
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Gianni Agus as Sergio
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Marcello Mando as Kommissar Spallone
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Renzo Marignano
Renzo Marignano (26 March 1923 - 25 November 1987), sometimes credited as Renzo Marignani, was an Italian actor and film director.
Born in Genoa, after World War II Marignano was one of the founders of ''Cimofilm'', a production company speciali ...
as Franco
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Barbara Pilavin as Norma
Release
''Dirty Weekend'' was released theatrically in Italy where it was distributed by
Cineriz
''Cineriz'' was an Italian media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films, founded in the early 1950s by the businessman Angelo Rizzoli. The company catalogue counts also many films directed by Federico Fellini, Gil ...
. The film grossed a total of 303.187 million
Italian lira
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on its release. The film was later shown in Paris on 2 October 1974 under the title ''Rapt a l'italienne'' with a 100-minute running time.
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1973 films
1973 comedy films
1970s Italian-language films
French comedy films
Films directed by Dino Risi
Commedia all'italiana
Films produced by Carlo Ponti
Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli
Films with screenplays by Ruggero Maccari
1970s Italian films
1970s French films
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