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Appassionate

Appassionate

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 3, 1999

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Comedy

Original Title

Appassionate

Production Companies

A.S.P.

Director

Tonino De Bernardi

Description

Pina was born in Portugal but now lives in poor circumstances in Naples. Pina has two daughters, Rosa, who has been wearing a wedding dress since she was left stranded at the altar several years ago, and Caterina, who murdered a man who wronged her as he left the church following his wedding. Caterina winds up in prison alongside Maddalena, a prostitute who witnessed the murder and was inspired to kill a man in her own life who had hurt her. The incidents from these women's lives are interspersed with another story, set in 1929 and filmed in black-and-white, about a man who shoots his wife in a movie theater and must run to avoid the police.