Boccaccio '70

About Boccaccio '70

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.

Boccaccio '70 is a 1962 comedy romance film directed by Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. The film is filed under italian and marriage.

Marisa Solinas takes the lead as Luciana (segment "Renzo e Luciana"), Anita Ekberg as Anita (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio"), Romy Schneider as Pupe (segment "Il lavoro"), and Sophia Loren as Zoe (segment "La riffa"). Released in February 1962, it runs 204 minutes.

The screenplay is by Cesare Zavattini and Ennio Flaiano. In the United States it streams on Kino Film Collection.

TMDB voters put it at 6.9 out of 10 across 162 votes.