''Wifemistress'' ( it, Mogliamante) is a 1977
Italian romantic movie
Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey ...
directed by
Marco Vicario
Marco Vicario (20 September 1925 – 10 September 2020) was an Italian film actor, screenwriter, film producer and director. He appeared in 23 films between 1950 and 1958. He also wrote for 13 films, produced 12 and directed a further 11. He ...
.
Plot
Ever since her husband pronounced her frigid on the night of their wedding, Antonia DeAngelis (
Laura Antonelli) has been bedridden. When her husband disappears, she sets off in his
horse and buggy on his route to find out what happened to him. She learns about her husband's business, his passions, his political writing, his mistresses, and his indifference to the
peasants on her family's land.
Her growing knowledge about her husband's life causes her own passions to stir, and she takes over her husband's
business
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, his habits, his thoughts, and even his mistress. She begins an affair with a young foreign doctor, improves the conditions of the peasants, and publishes her husband's writings.
In reality, a
murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification (jurisprudence), justification or valid excuse (legal), excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person wit ...
charge has forced Luigi into hiding directly across the street from his own home, where he watches Antonia become his
sexual and
social equal from behind the slats of a boarded window. Once Antonia became aware of the fact that Luigi was watching her from his hiding place, she opened her windows wide and continued her erotic escapades. This tortured Luigi as he did not know his wife was capable of such passion and eroticism.
After the police drop the murder charge, he must decide whether and how to deal with his wife's transformation.
Cast
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Laura Antonelli as Antonia De Angelis
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Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (28 September 1924 – 19 December 1996) was an Italian film actor, regarded as one of his country's most iconic male performers of the 20th century. He played leading roles for many of Italy's top di ...
as Luigi De Angelis
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Leonard Mann as Dr. Dario Favella
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William Berger as Count Brandini
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Gastone Moschin as Vincenzo
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Olga Karlatos as Dr. Paola Pagano
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Stefano Patrizi
Stefano is the Italian form of the masculine given name Στέφανος (Stefanos, Stephen). The name is of Greek origin, Στέφανος, meaning a person who made a significant achievement and has been crowned. In Orthodox Christianity the ach ...
as Enrico, Clara's fiancé
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Luigi Diberti as Lawyer
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Enzo Robutti
Enzo Robutti (24 October 1933 – 13 February 2022) was an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, playwright, and writer.
Life and career
Born in Bologna, Robutti attended the drama school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, and debuted on stage ...
as Priest
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Daniele Gabbai as Young official
References
External links
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1977 films
1970s Italian-language films
1977 romantic comedy films
Films directed by Marco Vicario
Italian romantic comedy films
1970s Italian films
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