Malicious (1973 film)

Malicious (aka Malizia)
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Directed by	Salvatore Samperi
Written by	Ottavio Jemma Alessandro Parenzo Salvatore Samperi
Starring	Laura Antonelli Turi Ferro Alessandro Momo Tina Aumont
Music by	Fred Bongusto
Cinematography	Vittorio Storaro
Edited by	Sergio Montanari
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	29 March 1973 (Italy) 9 January 1974 (France) 5 June 1974 (USA) (New York City, New York)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Malicious (Italian: Maliziacode: it is deprecated ) is an Italian comedy. The original title Malizia is Italian for "malice". It was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Premise

The film is about the parallel desire of a widower and his three sons for their new housekeeper. The film challenged sexual taboos by presenting and mixing such themes as a teenage male sexually harassing an adult woman and her eventual rapacious response.

Plot

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Laura Antonelli as Angela

Following the death of his wife, a father of three sons (aged 18, 14 and 6) hires an attractive young housekeeper named Angela (Laura Antonelli), and soon becomes engaged to her. His sons are also infatuated with Angela, and each of them uses their particular way to approach and capture the apparently innocent and naive young woman, and to see more of her body. But only one of them succeeds in dominating and conquering her: the middle son, the teenager Nino. He blackmails her into eventually tolerating his increasingly aggressive physical sexual harassment.

Cast

• Laura Antonelli - Angela
• Turi Ferro - Ignazio
• Alessandro Momo - Nino
• Tina Aumont - Luciana
• Lilla Brignone - Granma
• Pino Caruso - Don Cirillo
• Angela Luce - Widow Corallo
• Stefano Amato - Porcello
• Gianluigi Chirizzi - Nuccio
• Grazia Di Marzà - Adelina
• Massimiliano Filoni - Enzio

External links

• Malicious (aka Malizia) at IMDb
• Malicious (aka Malizia) at AllMovie