Seven Beauties

Seven Beauties
Italian theatrical release poster
Directed by	Lina Wertmüller
Written by	Lina Wertmüller
Produced by	Arrigo Colombo Lina Wertmüller
Starring	Giancarlo Giannini Fernando Rey
Cinematography	Tonino Delli Colli
Edited by	Franco Fraticelli
Music by	Nando de Luca e Enzo Jannacci
Production company	Medusa Distribuzione
Distributed by	Medusa Distribuzione
Release dates	4 May 1975 (1975-05-04) (France) 20 December 1975 (1975-12-20) (Italy)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
Box office	$1.4 million[1]

Seven Beauties (Italian: Pasqualino Settebellezze, "Pasqualino Sevenbeauties") is a 1975 historical black comedy drama Italian film written and directed by Lina Wertmüller and starring Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, and Shirley Stoler.

Written by Wertmüller, the film is about an Italian everyman who deserts the army during World War II, is captured by the Germans and sent to a prison camp, where he does anything he can to survive. Through flashbacks, we learn about his seven unattractive sisters, his accidental murder of one sister's lover, his imprisonment in an insane asylum—where he rapes a patient—and his volunteering to be a soldier to escape confinement.

For her work on the film, Wertmüller became the first woman nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. The film received three other Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Foreign Language Film.^[2] It also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Foreign Film.^[3]

The production design and costume design are by Wertmüller's husband, Enrico Job.