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Seven Beauties ()

Pasqualino Settebellezze (original title)
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The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
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  • Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations.
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Pasqualino Frafuso
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Pedro
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The Prison Camp Commandant
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Concettina Frafuso
Piero Di Iorio ...
Francesco
Enzo Vitale ...
Don Raffaele
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Socialist
Lucio Amelio ...
Lawyer
Ermelinda De Felice ...
Signora Frafuso
Bianca D'Origlia ...
The Psychiatrist
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Carolina (as Francesca Marciani)
Mario Conti ...
Totonno
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The Prison Camp Commandant's Secretary
Emilio Salvatore
Aristide Caporale ...
Madman (as Aristide Caporali)
Pasquale Vitiello
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Luciano Foti ...
Kapo (uncredited)
Veriano Ginesi ...
Smoking Patient in Aversa (uncredited)
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Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
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Worker (uncredited)
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Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)
Ada Pometti ...
Prostitute (uncredited)
Giuseppe Transocchi ...
Hanged Captive (uncredited)
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Madman (uncredited)
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Man in Prison (uncredited)

Directed by

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Lina Wertmüller

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Lina Wertmüller ... (written by)

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Arrigo Colombo ... producer
Lina Wertmüller ... producer (uncredited)

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Enzo Jannacci

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Tonino Delli Colli

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Franco Fraticelli

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Pierluigi Leonardi ... assistant editor
Luigi Zitta ... assistant assistant editor (as Luigi Zita)

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Enrico Job

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Veljko Despotovic ... (uncredited)

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Roberto Granieri

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Enrico Job

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Luciana Maria Costanzi ... hair stylist (as Maria Costanzi)
Cesare Paciotti ... makeup artist
Michele Trimarchi ... key makeup artist

Production Management

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Fausto Grisi ... delegate producer
Gino Millozza ... production manager
Enzo Nigro ... production supervisor
Antonio Sarno ... production supervisor (as Tonino Sarno)

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Sandra Dal Sasso ... assistant director (as Alessandra Dal Sasso)

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Gianni Giovagnoni ... set designer

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Venanzio Biraschi ... sound mixer
Mario Bramonti ... sound
Italo Cameracanna ... foley artist
Giuseppe Muratori ... boom operator
John Marshall ... associate dubbing editor (uncredited)
Luciano Muratori ... boom operator (uncredited)
Primiano Muratori ... sound engineer (uncredited)

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Sandro Battaglia ... assistant camera
Giancarlo Granatelli ... assistant camera
Carlo Tafani ... camera operator
Enzo Tosi ... assistant camera
Francesco Brescini ... electrician (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Benito Persico ... costumer

Location Management

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Franco Rapa ... location services: Naples, Italy (uncredited)

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Nando De Luca ... conductor

Script and Continuity Department

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Franca Invernizzi ... script supervisor (as Franca Santi Invernizzi)

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Claudio Cuomo ... production secretary
Guglielmo Del Vecchio ... production secretary
Crew believed to be complete

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Plot Summary

During WWII. Italian national Neapolitan Pasqualino Frafuso is a big-talking layabout who has grand ideas of his importance, especially in upholding the honor of his family, consisting of his mother and his less-than-attractive seven sisters. He admits to himself that he too is less than handsome, but believes he nonetheless attracts the romantic interest of most women. In upholding his sisters' honor he often calls himself Pasqualino Settebellezze, translated Pasqualino "Seven Beauties". Having gone AWOL from military service, he has just gotten off a train as a stowaway in an unknown locale when he meets another AWOL soldier, Francesco. They correctly assume that they're somewhere in Germany. Relaying his less-than-direct "point A to point B" story of how he arrived at this point, Pasqualino tells one in which every conscious decision was what he thought would be the path of greatest ease for himself in less-than-ideal circumstances, beginning with accidentally killing his sister Concettina's pimp (and, according to her, her lover and fiancé), declaring insanity in the ensuing legal battles rather than going to prison, and choosing military service rather than continue to endure medical intervention, such as shock treatment, at the psychiatric hospital. Pasqualino and Francesco are quickly captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp. Having already witnessed mass murders by the Germans both inside and outside the camp, Pasqualino makes another "easier path" decision in what ends up being a dangerous campaign of seducing the obese, sadistic female camp commandant. Written by Huggo

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Also Known As
  • Seven Beauties (India, English title)
  • Seven Beauties (Canada, English title)
  • Seven Beauties (World-wide, English title)
  • Seven Beauties (United States)
  • Seven Beauties (Belgium, English title)
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  • 116 min
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Trivia With this film, Lina Wertmüller became the first woman ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. The only other women to be so nominated are Jane Campion for The Piano (1993) and The Power of the Dog (2021), Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2003), Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2008), Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird (2017), Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman (2020), and Chloé Zhao for Nomadland (2020). Bigelow won first, followed 11 years later by Zhao, while Campion finally won hers the year after. See more »
Goofs Seven minutes in, when Pasqualino sees civilians being cut down with machine-gun fire, there is no blood spray when they're shot and subsequently no blood on any of the corpses. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano (1985). See more »
Quotes Narrator: The ones who don't enjoy themselves, even when they laugh. Oh yeah. The ones who worship the corporate image, not knowing that they work for someone else. Oh yeah. The ones who should have been shot in the cradle... Pow! Oh yeah. The ones who say 'Follow me to success, but kill me if I fail... so to speak.' Oh yeah. The ones who say we Italians are the greatest he-men on earth. Oh yeah. The ones who are noble Romans, the ones who say 'That's for me,' the ones who say 'You know what I mean.' Oh yeah. The ones who vote for the right because they're fed up with strikes. Oh yeah. The ones who vote white in order not to get dirty. The ones who never get involved with politics. Oh yeah. The ones who say 'Be calm, calm.' The ones who still support the king. The ones who say 'Yes, sir.' Oh yeah. The ones who make love standing in their boots, and imagine they're in a luxurious bed. The ones who believe Christ is Santa Claus as a young man. Oh yeah. The ones who say 'Oh, what the hell.' The ones who were there. The ones who believe in everything, even in God. The ones who listen to the national anthem. Oh yeah. The ones who love their country. The ones who keep going, just to see how it will end. Oh yeah. The ones who are in garbage up to here. Oh yeah. The ones who sleep soundly, even with cancer. Oh yeah. The ones who, even now, don't believe the world is round. Oh yeah, oh yeah. The ones who are afraid of flying. Oh yeah. The ones who have never had a fatal accident. Oh yeah. The ones who have had one. The ones who, at a certain point in their lives, create a secret weapon, Christ. Oh yeah. The ones who are always standing at the bar. The ones who are always in Switzerland. The ones who started early, haven't arrived, and don't know they're not going to. Oh yeah. The ones who lose wars by the skin of their teeth. Oh yeah. The ones who say 'Everything is wrong here.' The ones who say 'Now let's all have a good laugh.' Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
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