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Una storia moderna –L’ape regina

Le lit conjugal

Marco Ferreri

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Fiction . 93' . Italy, France . 1963 . IT / ST : FR

L’ape regina is a woman who, with unwavering sweetness, kills her husband, a consenting victim, by inducing him to make love; for her, enjoying sex with her husband is not the purpose of marriage, procreation is. So when finally pregnant, she no longer needs her husband, who dies from consumption. I wrote the story with Parise, but then I lost track of him, and the film was held up for eight months by the censorship board because of a shot of a long nightgown with a hole in it, around which was embroidered the maxim, “I don’t do it for my pleasure but to please God”. The family was a cornerstone of Italian society, and at that time, I’m talking about 1962-63, divorce was not even remotely talked about, there was only the Roman Rota. For Marina Vlady in L’ape regina, the family is only a means for fulfilling her conception of woman, motherhood, which is what she was raised for within a very clear function of family power. The man, however, is not a victim; he is jointly responsible for the whole relationship right from the very beginning.

Marco Ferreri, L’avventurosa storia del cinema italiano. 1960-1969,
edited by Franca Faldini and Goffredo Fofi, Feltrinelli, Milan 1981

STARRING

Ugo Tognazzi

Marina Vlady

Walter Giller

Linda Sini

Riccardo Fellini

Achille Majeroni

Vera Ragazzi

Pietro Tattanelli

Melissa Drake

Ferdinand Guillaume

WRITER

Rafael Azcona

Marco Ferreri

Diego Fabbri

Pasquale Festa Campanile

Massimo Franciosa

DIRECTOR

Marco Ferreri

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Ennio Guarnieri

FILM EDITING

Lionello Massobrio

MUSIC

Teo Usuelli

PRODUCTION

Henryk Chroscicki

Alfonso Sansone per Sancro Film

Cocinor

Films Marceau

Marco Ferreri

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Before making his way in the film industry as a director, Ferreri worked selling liquor and optical equipment, as an advertising agent and an actor. In 1950 he developed Documento Mensile for the Italian cinema. This short-lived film-magazine was similar in style to a newsreel, but dealt with the news in the film industry. Ferreri directed many films, several of which were released in the United States. Marco died of a heart attack on May 9, 1997 in Paris, France. Ferreri gained celebrity as the Italian filmmaker of grotesque comedies. He is best known for “La Grande Bouffe” film.

FILMOGRAPHY

1964 : LA DONNA SCIMMIA
1968 : L’UOMO DEI CINQUE PALLONI
1969 : DILLINGER È MORTO
1991 : LA CARNE
1972 : LIZA
1972 : L’UDIENZA
1973 : LA GRANDE ABBUFFATA
1976 : L’ULTIMA DONNA
1978 : CIAO MASCHIO
1981 : STORIE DI ORDINARIA FOLLIA

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