The Birds, the Bees and the Italians

Signore & Signori (The Birds, the Bees and the Italians)
Original film poster
Directed by	Pietro Germi
Written by	Age Pietro Germi Luciano Vincenzoni
Starring	Virna Lisi Gastone Moschin Nora Ricci
Music by	Carlo Rustichelli
Cinematography	Aiace Parolin
Distributed by	Claridge Pictures
Release dates	10 February 1966 (1966-02-10) (Italy) 24 June 1966 (1966-06-24) (France)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	France Italy
Language	Italian

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians is a 1966 Italian film directed by Pietro Germi. Its original Italian title is Signore & Signori, which means 'Ladies and Gentlemen'.

The anthology film is a sex comedy that presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso. In the first story, a husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair. In the second, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them. In the third, men of the town all try to seduce a promiscuous teenager, but her father eventually reveals that she is underage.

The film shared the Grand Prix with A Man and a Woman at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival.^[1] It was later selected for screening as part of the Cannes Classics section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

Cast

Virna Lisi - Milena Zulian
Gastone Moschin - Osvaldo Bisigato
Nora Ricci - Gilda Bisigato
Alberto Lionello - Toni Gasparini
Olga Villi - Ippolita Gasparini
Franco Fabrizi - Lino Benedetti
Beba Loncar - Noemi Castellan
Gigi Ballista - Giacinto Castellan
Carlo Bagno - Bepi Cristofoletto
Patrizia Valturri - Alda Cristofoletto
Virgilio Gazzolo - Newspaper editor
Quinto Parmeggiani - Giovanni Soligo
Gia Sandri - Betty Soligo
Moira Orfei - Giorgia Casellato
Virgilio Scapin - Don Schiavon

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: The Birds, the Bees and the Italians". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
↑ "Cannes Classics 2016". Cannes Film Festival. 20 April 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2016.

External links

The films of Pietro Germi

Palme d'Or winning films

Union Pacific (1939)
Iris and the Lieutenant (1946)
The Lost Weekend (1946)
The Red Meadows (1946)
Brief Encounter (1946)
María Candelaria (1946)
Neecha Nagar (1946)
The Turning Point (1946)
La Symphonie Pastorale (1946)
The Last Chance (1946)
Men Without Wings (1946)
Rome, Open City (1946)
The Third Man (1949)
Miss Julie (1951)
Miracle in Milan (1951)
The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1952)
Two Cents Worth of Hope (1952)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Gate of Hell (1954)
Marty (1955)
The Silent World (1956)
Friendly Persuasion (1957)
The Cranes Are Flying (1958)
Black Orpheus (1959)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
The Long Absence (1961)
Viridiana (1961)
O Pagador de Promessas (1962)
The Leopard (1963)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965)
A Man and a Woman (1966)
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)
Blowup (1967)
if.... (1969)
MASH (1970)
The Go-Between (1971)
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1972)
The Mattei Affair (1972)
The Hireling (1973)
Scarecrow (1973)
The Conversation (1974)
Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Padre Padrone (1977)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Tin Drum (1979)
All That Jazz (1980)
Kagemusha (1980)
Man of Iron (1981)
Missing (1982)
Yol (1982)
The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
Paris, Texas (1984)
When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
The Mission (1986)
Under the Sun of Satan (1987)
Pelle the Conqueror (1988)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Barton Fink (1991)
The Best Intentions (1992)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
The Piano (1993)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Underground (1995)
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Taste of Cherry (1997)
The Eel (1997)
Eternity and a Day (1998)
Rosetta (1999)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
The Son's Room (2001)
The Pianist (2002)
Elephant (2003)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
The Child (2005)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
The Class (2008)
The White Ribbon (2009)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
The Tree of Life (2011)
Amour (2012)
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
Winter Sleep (2014)
Dheepan (2015)
I, Daniel Blake (2016)

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