The Sicily of director Pietro Germi’s 1961 black comedy Divorce Italian Style has an impossibly sunny face and a bitter heart of darkness. In this beautiful place, mob rule is strictly enforced, the ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

The Railroad Man, made in 1956 by Italian Director Pietro Germi (Divorce Italian Style, Seduced and Abandoned), is an absorbing minor drama of family life. To followers of Germi’s varied career, the ...

Reel Music, the Northwest Film Center's music-documentary festival, heads into its third week; in addition to the two features noted below, check out movies about jug-band music; legendary jazzman ...

Pietro Germi’s 1964 comedy-drama Sedotta e Abbandonata (Seduced and Abandoned) will be screened by the Kinemastik Film Klub today at The Royal British Legion, Valletta. The film, chosen by Antonio ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pietro Germi (14 September 1914, Genoa - 5 December 1974) was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle ...

Pietro Germi’s Divorce, Italian Style (1961) is clearly the comic sensation of the recently concluded Pietro Germi retrospective at Film Forum, and is having its own two-week run from Nov. 9 to Nov.

Seduced and Abandoned. The girl’s name is Agnese, a raven-haired sylph with the face of a Botticelli angel. Head high, eyes cast demurely downward, she moves with easy grace through the cobblestone ...

The capstone of Film Forum’s Pietro Germi mini-retrospective is the director’s most popular work, his mid-career turn to wheeling commedia all’italiana (this movie gave the genre its moniker) after ...