Il vedovo

Dino Risi’s Il vedovo sees Italy’s preeminent comedy actor Alberto Sordi play a philandering husband of a wealthy and successful woman who simply tolerates her husband's ineptitude. Until he spots a potential plan for her death, which would result in a great inheritance for him.

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Neorealismo rosa - a visual essay by Italian cinema professor and author of Comedy Italian Style Remi Fournier Lanzoni on the softening of neo-realism which laid the groundwork for the emergence of commedia all’italiana

Alberto Sordi - a visual essay by critic Kat Ellinger about the great Italian actor

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Newly translated optional English subtitles