A Sicilian (Turi Ferro) feels his masculinity threatened when his son returns with an androgynous girlfriend whom everyone else assumes to be male.
Acting
Turi Ferro's volcanic patriarch performance anchors the farce.
Direction
Cavara balances social satire with commedia dell'arte energy.
Director
Paolo Cavara
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Italy's 1970s 'commedia sexy all'italiana' boom, which weaponized Catholic guilt and machismo for box office gold.
Director Paolo Cavara pivoted from Mondo Cane's shock-documentary to this; Agostina Belli was 19 and already a genre staple.
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