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In Naples, in the Second World War, the wolf businessman Domenico Soriano meets the seventeen years old whore Filumena Marturano in a brothel during an allied bombing. Two years later, in the post-war, they meet each other by chance and begin a long affair. For twenty-two years, Filumena is his mistress and administrates his shops in Naples while Domenico is traveling. When Domenico decides to marry the young cashier of his bakery, Filumena lures him as if she were near to death and he marries her. Later he annuls their matrimony, and she tells him that she has three sons that she raised secretly, one of them is his legitimate son but she does not disclose his identity. The middle-age Domenico uses the most different subterfuges trying to find which teenager might be his son.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi

Released: December 18, 1964

Runtime: 102.0

Popularity Rating: 4.479

Compagnia Cinematografica Champion, Les Films Concordia

France, Italy

Filumena Marturano Sophia Loren
Domenico Soriano Marcello Mastroianni
Alfredo Aldo Puglisi
Rosalia Tecla Scarano
Diana Marilu Tolo
Umberto Gianni Ridolfi
Michele Generoso Cortini
Riccardo Vito Moricone
Teresina Rita Piccione
Una pasticcere Alfio Vita
Cashier Pia Lindstrom

Camera — Director of Photography: Roberto Gerardi
Directing — Director: Vittorio De Sica
Editing — Editor: Adriana Novelli
Production — Executive Producer: Joseph E. Levine
Production — Producer: Carlo Ponti
Sound — Original Music Composer: Armando Trovaioli
Writing — Screenplay: Leonardo Benvenuti
Writing — Screenplay: Piero De Bernardi
Writing — Screenplay: Renato Castellani
Writing — Screenplay: Tonino Guerra
Writing — Theatre Play: Eduardo De Filippo