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| Directed by | Mariano Laurenti |
| Written by | Carlo Veo |
| Starring | Edwige Fenech |
| Cinematography | Tino Santoni |
| Music by | Berto Pisano |
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| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Naughty Nun (Italian: La bella Antonia, prima monica e poi dimonia, lit. 'Beautiful Antonia, First a Nun Then a Demon') is a 1972 Italian commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Mariano Laurenti.[1]
Cast
[edit]- Edwige Fenech: Antonia
- Piero Focaccia: Painter Claudio Fornari
- Dada Gallotti: Domicilla
- Riccardo Garrone: Giovanni Piccolomini
- Malisa Longo: Caterina
- Luciana Turina: Madre badessa
- Umberto D'Orsi: Domenico Mincaglia
- Lucretia Love: Ippolita
- Tiberio Murgia: Fra' Filippuccio
- Elio Crovetto: Fra' Pomponio
Production
[edit]The film was a co-production between Flora Film, Lea Film, and National Cinematografica.[2] It was shot between Gubbio and Elios Studios in Rome.[2]
Release
[edit]The film was released in Italian cinemas by Variety on 23 August 1972.[2] Almost two years after its release, on 8 July 1974, Catanzaro praetor Donato Massimo Bartolomei banned the film for breaching the decency code; his ruling was overturned on 5 August 1974.[2]
Reception
[edit]Domestically the film grossed about 520 million lire.[2] Leonardo Autera on Corriere della Sera described it as a film "bordering on pornography and stuffed to the point of boredom with the heaviest profanity", with Laurenti's direction "at the extreme end of technical illiteracy".[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Chiti, Roberto; Poppi, Roberto; Lancia, Enrico (1991). "La bella Antonia, prima monica e poi dimonia". Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese. ISBN 8876059350.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Giusti, Marco (2019). "La bella Antonia, prima monica e poi dimonia". Dizionario Stracult della commedia sexy (in Italian). Bloodbuster edizioni. p. 122-3. ISBN 978-88-943385-3-9.
- ↑ "Rassegna cinematografica - La bella Antonia, prima monica e poi dimonia". Corriere della Sera. 18 November 1972. p. 12.
External links
[edit]- Naughty Nun at IMDb
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