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Secret Fantasy

Secret Fantasy

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 22, 1971

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

63%

Original Title

Il merlo maschio

Production Companies

Clesi Cinematografica

Director

Pasquale Festa Campanile

Description

Niccolò Vivaldi is a cello player and he plays in Arena di Verona Orchestra. But he is not the first and neither the second cello. He is frustrated. Nobody can remember his face, nor his name. Niccolò is married to Costanza, who is really beautiful and he takes some pictures of her naked. Later he shows the pictures to a friend and so he feels better. He starts to write a comic opera called "Il merlo maschio" only to discover later he had written Rossini's "La gazza ladra". To maintain his self-esteem he can only show his wife...