![]() ![]() ![]() Despite them being moderately popular, he reportedly gained a reputation amongst producers as someone who had problems finishing projects, and it was really with Malizia, which was hugely successful on its initial Italian release (making 2,172,000,000 lire) that he cemented his reputation. Samperi made his debut with Grazie zia (68), which was swiftly followed by Cuore di mamma (69) and Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo (70). Like Brass, particularly, his films tend to mix up eroticism with a rather skeptical view of Italian manners, and they also manage to be surprisingly elegant given their puckish, saucy storylines. Born in Padua in 1944, he was part of a group of filmmakers to emerge from Venice in the late 1960s, others including Tinto Brass and Aldo Lado. Salvatore Samperi, who died in March this year, was another of those directors with a name that’s very familiar to me even though I haven’t actually seen any of his films. Screenplay: Ottavio Jemma, Sandro Parenzo, Salvatore SamperiĬast: Laura Antonelli (Angela), Turi Ferro (Ignazio), Alessandro Momo (Nino), Tina Aumont (Luciana), Lilla Brignone (Granma), Pino Caruso (Don Cirillo), Angela Luce (Widow Corallo), Stefano Amato (Porcello), Gianluigi Chirizzi (Nuccio), Grazia Di Marzà (Adelina), Massimiliano Filoni (Enzio) ![]()
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