Divorce Italian Style

Divorce Italian Style
Divorce Italian Style
Directed by	Pietro Germi
Screenplay by	Ennio De Concini; Pietro Germi; Alfredo Giannetti; Agenore Incrocci (uncredited)
Based on	Un delitto d'onore; 1960 novel; by Giovanni Arpino
Produced by	Franco Cristaldi
Starring	Marcello Mastroianni; Daniela Rocca; Stefania Sandrelli; Leopoldo Trieste; Odoardo Spadaro
Cinematography	Carlo Di Palma; Leonida Barboni
Edited by	Roberto Cinquini
Music by	Carlo Rustichelli
Distributed by	Embassy Pictures
Release date	20 December 1961;
Running time	108 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
Box office	$2.3 million (US/Canada rentals)

Divorce Italian Style (Italian: Divorzio all'italiana) is a 1961 Italian black comedy film directed by Pietro Germi. The screenplay is by Germi, Ennio De Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, and Agenore Incrocci, based on Giovanni Arpino's novel Un delitto d'onore (English title A Crime of Honor). It stars Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Lando Buzzanca, and Leopoldo Trieste.

It received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, two Golden Globe Awards and numerous other International film prizes. In 2008, the film was included in the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."^[2]

^ "'Divorce-Italian Style,' $2,252,013". Variety. February 19, 1964. p. 5.
^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 2021-03-11.