Il Bisbetico Domato

Il Bisbetico Domato
Italian theatrical release poster by Renato Casaro
Directed byFranco Castellano
Giuseppe Moccia
Written byFranco Castellano
Giuseppe Moccia
StarringAdriano Celentano
Ornella Muti
CinematographyAlfio Contini
Edited byAntonio Siciliano
Music byDetto Mariano
Production
company
Distributed byVerleih J
Release date
  • 20 December 1980 (1980-12-20) (Italy)
Running time
96 min. ca. (104 min. original uncut version)
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
Box office17 billion lire (Italy)
56 million tickets (USSR)

Il Bisbetico Domato (literally "The Ill-Tempered Man Tamed"; English: The Taming of the Scoundrel) is a 1980 Italian film directed by Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia, credited as Castellano & Pipolo.[1] The plot is loosely inspired by William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.[2][3]

  1. ^ Variety's Film Reviews: 1981-1982. Bowker, 1983. ISBN 0835227979.
  2. ^ Richard Burt (2007). Shakespeares after Shakespeare: An encyclopedia of the Bard in mass media and popular culture, Volume 1. Greenwood Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0313331176.
  3. ^ Eddie Sammons (2004). Shakespeare: a hundred years on film. Scarecrow Press, 2004. ISBN 081084446X.

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