Seduced and Abandoned

There is something of the volcanic about this darkly comedic assessment of the hypocrisies of provincial life and double standards in Italy in the 1960s. It all starts when the fifteen year old Agnese (Stefanie Sandrelli) is seduced by Peppino (Aldo Puglisi) whilst her mother and sister - his own fiancée Matilde (Paola Biggio), and their afternoon nap. Next thing, she is expecting a baby and her livid father Don Vincenzo (Saro Urzi) demands that he do the right thing by his younger daughter. Disgraced and in some peril, Peppino does a bunk and flees the scene, but how far can he get with her brother Antonio (Lando Buzzanca) on his trail with an unpleasant ultimatum to deliver. At the end of her own tether by constantly being locked in her r...

There is something of the volcanic about this darkly comedic assessment of the hypocrisies of provincial life and double standards in Italy in the 1960s. It all starts when the fifteen year old Agnese (Stefanie Sandrelli) is seduced by Peppino (Aldo Puglisi) whilst her mother and sister - his own fiancée Matilde (Paola Biggio) are having their afternoon nap. Next thing, she is expecting a baby and her livid father Don Vincenzo (Saro Urzi) demands that he do the right thing by his younger daughter. Disgraced and in some peril, Peppino does a bunk and flees the scene, but how far can he get with her brother Antonio (Lando Buzzanca) on his trail with an unpleasant ultimatum to deliver. At the end of her own tether by constantly being locked in...