Seven Beauties
Directed by Lina Wertmüller
Produced by Medusa Distribuzione
A darkly comic, morally ambiguous war drama that uses a petty criminal's survival through seduction and compromise to interrogate honor, masculinity, and the dehumanizing machinery of fascism.
Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.
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