Passion of Love (1981)

Original title

Passione d'amore

Directed by

Ettore Scola

Genre

drama film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

TP

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married army officer becomes obsessed with an unattractive and sickly woman who is deeply in love with him. Their intense and destructive relationship unfolds against a 19th-century Italian backdrop.

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What happens

Passion of Love (Italian: Passione d'amore) is a 1981 drama film directed by Ettore Scola and was adapted from the 1869 novel Fosca by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti. The film was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. It served as the inspiration for the 1994 Broadway musical Passion by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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