The Girl with the Pistol (1968)

Original title

La ragazza con la pistola

Directed by

Mario Monicelli

Genre

comedy film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 42m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 153 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Sicilian woman decides to seek revenge after she is kidnapped and abandoned by her would-be husband. She travels to Scotland to track him down and confront him.

comediclightheartedsatiricalwrysocially awareplayfulslightly tense

What happens

The Girl with the Pistol (Italian: La ragazza con la pistola) is a 1968 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Monica Vitti won the David di Donatello for Best Actress. The film tackled the themes of bride kidnapping and honour killing, which were still relevant in the Southern Italian culture of the time and normalized to some extent by Italian law, and had then only recently been challenged when Franca Viola publicly refused to marry the man who raped her. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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