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The Sensuous Sicilian

The Sensuous Sicilian

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 24, 1973

Runtime

2h 0m

Genres

Comedy, Drama

User Score

62%

Original Title

Paolo il caldo

Production Companies

Seven Hills Properties Associates, Atlantica Cinematografica Produzione Films, Medusa Produzione

Director

Marco Vicario

Description

From his youth, Paolo Castorini, a Sicilian baron, is as attracted to women as they to him. Giovanna, a servant girl, Lillian, a serious girlfriend in Rome, a hostess at a post-war party, Paolo makes love to them all. He also feels dissatisfied with a life only of the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. When his father is on his deathbed, Paolo learns of syphilis in the family and something of the curse of dissolution. Some years later, he resolves to marry Katrina, the pure daughter of the woman he should have married. He wants her purity to redeem him so he can make something of his life. But is it too late?