The Seduction of Mimi
The Seduction of Mimi (lang-it) is a 1972 Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannini as Mimi and featuring Mariangela Melato, Turi Ferro and Agostina Belli. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, and was very loosely adapted for the 1977 American film Which Way Is Up? starring Richard Pryor.
Plot
Set in both Sicily and mainland Italy, the film follows the adventures of a man nicknamed Mimi (Giancarlo Giannini). Mimi is a poor laborer who is pressured by his employers to vote for the mafia candidate in a local election. Frustrated by the system and assured that the ballot will be secret Mimi votes for the communist representative instead. However he is fired and assured he will never work again as the ballot was not secret. Disgusted Mimi flees to Turin, while his wife, Rosalia, stays in Sicily.
More details
| author | Lina Wertmüller |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Turin |
| director | Lina Wertmüller |
| editor | Franco Fraticelli |
| genre | comedy-drama political satire |
| keywords | abandon attack cheat christen communist party fall giving birth horrify jail mafia boss married mourn sleep smoke think trotskyist |
| musicBy | Piero Piccioni |
| producer | Daniele Senatore Romano Cardarelli |
| productionCompany | Euro International Films |
| publisher | Euro International Films |
| recordedAt | Catania |
| theme | satirical |