''Six Days a Week'' ( it, La bugiarda, known in France as ''Le Partage de Catherine'') is a

1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...

Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini and starring

Catherine Spaak Catherine Spaak (3 April 1945 – 17 April 2022) was a French-born Italian actress and singer who acted in mostly in Italian films with some Hollywood and international productions. She is best known for her roles in the films ''Il Sorpasso'' (1 ...

. It was adapted from the play by

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Plot

Maria is a young beauty who is busy juggling three boyfriends (a count, a dentist and a student) at the same time. She manages this elaborate deception by impersonating her roommate Silvana who is a real life airline hostess. She lies to the count and the dentist about her flight schedules and her whereabouts so she can spend three days a week with each of them. She spends the remaining day of the week with the student who thinks she is a fellow student named Maria. One day the news of the real Silvana's flight disappearance breaks out and she is presumed dead. Comedy and confusion ensure when Maria is forced to come up with a more elaborate scheme to cover her tracks and keep her boyfriends happy.

Cast

as Maria / Silvana / Caterina * Enrico Maria Salerno as Count Adriano Silveri *

Marc Michel Marc Michel (February 10, 1929 – 3 November 2016) was a French-Swiss actor. He appeared in more than fifty films. He is best known for his roles in three seminal French films of the 1960s: Jacques Becker's ''Le Trou'' (1960), and two films ...

as Arturo Santini * Riccardo Cucciolla *

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as Gianni Moraldi * José Calvo *

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External links

* 1965 films 1960s Italian-language films 1965 comedy films Films set in Rome Italian comedy films Films scored by Benedetto Ghiglia 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Italy-comedy-film-stub