Seven Beauties
International Arthouse
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1h 56m
Directed by Lina Wertmüller | 116 mins | 1975
The comedy of errors begins when Neapolitan hustler Giancarlo Giannini inadvertently murders the lover of one of his septet of homely sisters. Worse luck follows, and Giannini lands in a concentration camp where, in order to survive, the practiced lothario must service the Nazi kapo, in this heady cocktail of comedy and horror.
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