Love & Anarchy

Director: Lina Wertmüller

1973, 120min., R

Language: Italian

Cast: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato,Eros Pagni

 

Film d’amore e d’anarchia… (Love and Anarchy). Director: Lina Wertmuller. 1973. Giancarlo Giannini’s tragicomedy made with his longtime director Lina Wertmuller thrilled audiences at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Giannini plays a courageous if distractable anarchist in Fascist Italy just before WWII. His plan to assassinate Benito Mussolini is endangered as he falls madly in love with Tripolina (Lina Polito), a woman who works in the brothel where he is staying, with reasons of her own for fighting fascism.