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Seven Beauties
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Lina Wertmüller Director
- Giancarlo Giannini as Pasqualino Frafuso aka Settebellezze
- Fernando Rey as Pedro the Anarchist Prisoner
- Shirley Stoler as Commandant
- Elena Fiore as Concettina, a Sister
- Roberto Herlitzka as the socialist
- Piero Di Iorio as Francesco - Pasqualino's comrade
- Enzo Vitale as Don Raffaele
- Ermalinda De Felice as Pasqualino's mother
- Lucio Amelio as the lawyer
- Aldo Valletti as Madman (uncredited)
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