''Six Days a Week'' ( it, La bugiarda, known in France as ''Le Partage de Catherine'') is a 1965
Italian
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comedy film
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directed by
Luigi Comencini
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and starring Catherine Spaak. It was adapted from the play by
Diego Fabbri
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Early career
Fabbri graduated from the University of Bologna in 1936 with a degree in economics and business. But his ...
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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.
Enrico Maria Salerno
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as Count Adriano Silveri
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Marc Michel
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as Arturo Santini
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Riccardo Cucciolla
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José Calvo
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He made around 150 appearances mostly in films between 1952 and his death in 1980. He entered film in 1952 ...