In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, Saverio gets engaged to Clotilde, her mentally-disturbed and sex-obsessed adolescent daughter. He plans to have her kidnapped and raped by an accomplice so she won't be a virgin anymore and he'll have an excuse to get out of the impending marriage. But what he doesn't plan is to fall in love with the girl...
Acting
Teresa Ann Savoy's unhinged, fearless commitment.
Direction
Lattuada's tonal whiplash between farce and sleaze.
Director
Alberto Lattuada
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Teresa Ann Savoy was 22 playing adolescent Clotilde; she'd later star in Tinto Brass's Salon Kitty and Caligula. Typecasting?
This was Lattuada's attempt at commedia all'italiana's dying gasp—sex comedies were replacing political satire, and the moral compass got lost.
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