A Rather Complicated Girl (1969)
Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the callers, Claudia, a painter. The two become lovers and things are spiced up by Claudia's ambiguous sexual nature and by the presence of her former lover, Pietro. Alberto discovers a pistol in Claudia's handbag and this leads to a further revelation: she's dominated by her stepmother Greta, who forced her into a clandestine lesbian relationship; of which Claudia is ashamed and wants to end - at all costs. Alberto, now a slave to love, runs Greta over. But Claudia denies urging him to murder...
Director:
Damiano Damiani
Writers:
Damiano Damiani, Alberto Silvestri, Franco Verucci.
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Catherine Spaak as Claudia |
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Jean Sorel as Alberto |
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Florinda Bolkan as Greta |
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Gabriella Boccardo as Viola |
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Gigi Proietti as Pietro |
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Luigi Casellato as Alberto's friend |
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Gino Lavagetto as Priest |
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Sergio Graziani as Greta's boyfriend |
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Maria Luisa Bavastro as Fausta |
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Franco Leo as Viola's friend |
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Gaetano Imbró as Viola's boyfriend |
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Guglielmo Bogliani as |
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Luciano Catenacci as |
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Franco Giornelli as Alberto's brother |
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Nello Riviè as |
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Roberto Rigamonti as |
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Margherita Simonini as |
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María Cuadra as Marina |
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Malisa Longo as Girl in Blue Bikini (uncredited) |
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Anna Maria Perego as Alberto's mother (uncredited) |
| Directing | Damiano Damiani | Director |
| Writing | Alberto Moravia | Story |
| Production | Giorgio Agliani | Producer |
| Sound | Fabio Fabor | Original Music Composer |
| Crew | Roberto Gerardi | Cinematography |
| Editing | Antonietta Zita | Editor |
| Art | Damiano Damiani | Art Direction |
| Art | Umberto Turco | Art Direction |
| Art | Claudio Giambanco | Set Decoration |
| Directing | Mario Giorsi | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Franco Groppioni | Sound |
| Sound | Corrado Volpicelli | Boom Operator |
| Camera | Alberto Marrama | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Ermanno Serto | Still Photographer |
| Editing | Giuliano Mattioli | Assistant Editor |
| Directing | Marina Chierici | Script Supervisor |
| Writing | Damiano Damiani | Screenplay |
| Writing | Alberto Silvestri | Screenplay |
| Writing | Franco Verucci | Screenplay |