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Shelley Winters stars as Lea, a psychotic Italian matriarch with a penchant for slaughtering her neighbours and boiling their chopped-up corpses to make soap. Lea was driven to madness because all but one of her children were born dead. Worse, she lives in Mussolini's Italy in 1938, and is torm...

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Other Authors: Vincenzoni, Luciano (Screenwriter), Badalucco, Nicola (Screenwriter), Winters, Shelley (Actor), Sydow, Max von, 1929-2020 (Actor), Pozzetto, Renato, 1940- (Actor), Lionello, Alberto, 1930-1994 (Actor), Asti, Adriana, 1933- (Actor), Tushingham, Rita, 1942- (Actor), Vukotic, Milena, 1938- (Actor), Scaccia, Mario, 1919-2011 (Actor), Bosisio, Liù, 1936- (Actor), Branciaroli, Franco (Actor), Marsina, Antonio, 1946- (Actor), Monti, Maria, 1935- (Actor), Antonelli, Laura, 1941-2015 (Actor), Nannuzzi, Armando, 1925-2001 (director of photography.), Jannacci, Enzo (composer (expression)), Donati, Danilo (Costume designer)
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:Italian
Language Notes:In Italian with optional English subtitles.
Published: Glendale, CA : Twilight Time, [2016]
Series:Limited edition series (Twilight Time (Firm))
Subjects:
Mothers and sons > Italy > Drama.
Murder > Italy > Drama.
Mothers and sons.
Murder.
Italy.
Crime films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Italian.
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Summary:Shelley Winters stars as Lea, a psychotic Italian matriarch with a penchant for slaughtering her neighbours and boiling their chopped-up corpses to make soap. Lea was driven to madness because all but one of her children were born dead. Worse, she lives in Mussolini's Italy in 1938, and is tormented by visions of the upcoming World War. Madly possessive of her one surviving son she will go to any lengths to keep him out of the army - or out of the arms of a sexy young dance teacher. Several female characters are played by male actors.
Item Description:Originally released as a motion picture in 1977.
"Limited edition of 3,000 units"--Container
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Accompanying booklet includes essay written by Julie Kirgo.
Special features: audio commentary with film historians Derek Botelho and David Del Valle; original theatrical trailer.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm)
Format:Blu-ray; 1080p High Definition; DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0; requires Blu-ray player.
Audience:Not rated.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Armando Nannuzzi ; editor, Nino Baragli ; music, Enzo Jannacci ; costume designer, production designer, Danilo Donati.