''La locandiera'' (also known as ''Mirandolina'') is a 1980 Italian

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directed by Paolo Cavara, based on the

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's three-act comedy '' The Mistress of the Inn''.

Plot

Mirandolina is famed for her beauty and runs an inn. From the outset, the count of Alba Fiorita and the marquis of Forlimpopoli are madly in love with her. The two nobles give her extravagant gifts, trying to impress and marry her. The cunning Mirandolina accepts their money and jewels without giving them her hand. A third man arrives on the scene: the Cavaliere di Ripafratta. He is extremely misogynistic and thinks that women bring only trouble to men. Mirandolina, who had never encountered a man like this, is deeply offended and takes it upon herself to teach him a lesson. She goes out of her way to make him fall in love with her. She succeeds and leads him to publicly admit in public that he has fallen in love with a woman. As a final punishment for his misogyny, she cruelly rejects him. In the end, the beautiful Mirandolina realizes she loves Fabrizio, her waiter. She abandons her hobby of "falling in love with men" and decides to remain faithful only to him.

Cast

* Claudia Mori as Mirandolina *

Adriano Celentano Adriano Celentano (; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian musician, singer, composer, actor, and filmmaker. He is dubbed "''il Molleggiato''" (the springy one) because of his dancing. Celentano's many albums frequently enjoyed both commercial and ...

as Cavaliere di Ripafratta *

Paolo Villaggio Paolo Villaggio (; 30 December 1932 – 3 July 2017) was an Italian actor, voice actor, writer, director and comedian. He is noted for the characters he created with paradoxical and grotesque characteristics: Professor Kranz, the ultra-timid G ...

as Marchese di Forlimpopoli * Marco Messeri as Conte di Albafiorita * Lorenza Guerrieri as Ortensia * Gianni Cavina as Fabrizio *

Milena Vukotic Milena Vukotic (, ; born 23 April 1935) is an Italian former ballerina and a stage, television, and film actress. Biography Vukotic was born in Rome, to a Serb Montenegrin comedy playwright father and an Italian pianist/composer mother. A ...

as Dejanira * Camillo Milli as

References

External links

* 1980 films Italian comedy films 1980 comedy films Films directed by Paolo Cavara Adaptations of works by Carlo Goldoni 1980s Italian-language films 1980s Italian films {{1980s-Italy-comedy-film-stub