Wondrous Boccaccio
Maraviglioso Boccaccio
2015, Film, 120 min, Comedy, Drama, History, Italian, Italy, MoviePedia score 62
It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.
Directed by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Cast
- Lello Arena as Duca Tancredi
- Paola Cortellesi as Badessa Usimbalda
- Carolina Crescentini as Isabetta
- Flavio Parenti as Nicoluccio Cacciamanico
- Vittoria Puccini as Catalina
- Michele Riondino as Guiscardo
- Kim Rossi Stuart as Calandrino
- Riccardo Scamarcio as Gentile Carisendi
- Kasia Smutniak as Ghismunda
- Jasmine Trinca as Giovanna
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