Seduction (1973 film)

Seduction
Seduction
Directed by	Fernando Di Leo
Starring	Lisa Gastoni
Cinematography	Franco Villa
Music by	Luis Enriquez Bacalov
Release date	1973;
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

La seduzione, internationally released as Seduction, is a 1973 Italian erotic film, directed by Fernando Di Leo and based on the novel Graziella by Ercole Patti.^[1]

Plot

After many years working as a journalist in France, Giuseppe returns to the empty family home in his native Acireale and looks up his old flame Caterina, now a widow and mother of the teenage Graziella. A staid middle-aged romance is rekindled and he begins spending nights in her home. Graziella, though she has a local boyfriend, finds her mother's mature and sophisticated lover far more alluring and starts trying to entice him.

Giuseppe succumbs to Graziella's charms bit by bit, and the affair has only just been consummated when Caterina finds out. Stormy arguments among the three end with a fragile truce, in which Giuseppe will not abandon Caterina. Unhappy that she has not won, Graziella gets her friend Rosina to tempt Giuseppe into a beach cabin and then rushes to tell her mother about this new infidelity. Dressing herself immaculately, Caterina waits outside Giuseppe's house until he emerges, when she shoots him dead.

Cast

Lisa Gastoni as Caterina
Maurice Ronet as Giuseppe
Jenny Tamburi as Graziella
Pino Caruso as Alfredo
Graziella Galvani as Luisa
Barbara Marzano as Rosina
Rosario Bonaventura as Rosario

Casting

Originally the character of Graziella was planned to be played by Ornella Muti, but she was eventually dropped because considered too attractive for the role.^[2]

Reception

At the time of its release, the newspapers widely reported the news of a man who died of a heart attack watching the movie.^[3]

References

^ Nino Borsellino, Lucio Felici. Il Novecento: scenari di fine secolo, Volume 1. Garzanti, 2001.
^ Vari. Calibro 9. Il cinema di Fernando di Leo. Nocturno, 2004.
^ Marco Giusti, "Dizionario dei film italiani stracult", Frassinelli, 1999.

External links

Seduction at IMDb

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[1] Nino Borsellino, Lucio Felici. Il Novecento: scenari di fine secolo, Volume 1. Garzanti, 2001.

[noct-2] Vari. Calibro 9. Il cinema di Fernando di Leo. Nocturno, 2004.

[dizionarioSTRACULT-3] Marco Giusti, "Dizionario dei film italiani stracult", Frassinelli, 1999.

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