Love & Anarchy
Lina Wertmüller & Her Beauties
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2h 5m
Directed by Lina Wertmüller | 120 mins | 1973
Country bumpkin anarchist Giancarlo Giannini arrives in Rome on a mission to assassinate Mussolini with the assistance of partisan prostitute Mariangela Melato in Wertmüller’s 1930s-set tragicomedy—but his resolve falters when he falls for Tripolina (Lina Polito), one of the ladies at the brothel where they’re plotting the putsch.
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