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Check to the Queen (1969)

Check to the Queen poster
Original title
Scacco alla regina
Directed by
Pasquale Festa Campanile
Genre
comedy film, LGBTQ-related film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 38m
Rating
4.7 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman navigates romantic and social entanglements with a series of men. It is a comedy set in late 1960s Italy.

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What happens

Scacco alla regina, internationally released as Check to the Queen, is a 1969 Italian comedy film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile. It is based on the novel The Slave by Renato Ghiotto. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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