Summer Night
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1h 38m
Directed by Lina Wertmüller • Comedy • 1986 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Mariangela Melato, Michele Placido, Roberto Herlitzka
From director Lina Wertmüller, the first female director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, comes this Italian comedy starring Mariangela Melato as a self-made tycoon interested in ecological preservation. Fed up with the terrorists who poach Italy's rich beauty, she decides to abduct, blindfold, and chain the number one violator in her remote villa.
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