The Slave
Demetrio Cultrera, known as Dedé, is a young Sicilian playboy, rich and bachelor, who gets engaged to the beautiful and very rich Rosalba, daughter of the local "king of the Jordanian tuna". After mar…
The Slave
Demetrio Cultrera, known as Dedé, is a young Sicilian playboy, rich and bachelor, who gets engaged to the beautiful and very rich Rosalba, daughter of the local "king of the Jordanian tuna". After marriage, the attitude of the emancipated Rosalba, who tries to impose a "modern" marital life on her husband, collides with the "traditionalist" stereotypes of the spouse who badly endures the distortion of the classic wife-husband relationship and, still less, the constant attempts to convert him to the rites of "enlightened" high society. Dede tries to indulge his wife, but becomes increasingly hostile to her tastes and habits, to her sexually castrating observations and to her unbearable radical chic friends [1]. To find an outlet for his needs as a "free-range male", he accepts the offer of the mature and fiery Elena, of whom he becomes the lover. But the situation worsens and Dedè is squeezed between Rosalba's irritating arrogance and Elena's obsessive passion. Seen deprived of any hope of having a quiet and traditional relationship, he decides to sever the relationship with his lover and separate from his wife. Strongly determined to build a stable relationship with a woman who can achieve her ideal of a quiet life, he leaves for the Amazon, where he is offered the opportunity to choose and buy a slave to take to Italy. Taken to a remote jungle village by nostalgic former Luftwaffe airman Von Shirac, his choice falls on the beautiful and docile Manua. Back in Italy, Dedè proudly shows her to friends and ex-wife, attracting the envy of one and the resentment of the other. Dede soon ends up falling in love with Manua, but, not wanting to make her friends understand this feeling, in public, he pretends to treat her as a slave. After the controversy and hostility of the citizens, due to blatant actions (such as being chauffeured in a rickshaw by Manua barefoot throughout the city) he also attracts the attention of the police who have the girl expelled from Italy. Only at final, thanks to the recommendation of a deputy, lover of his ex-wife, he manages to keep Manua with him. Everything is resolved, but after years of living together some perplexity emerges
The Slave
Comedy,Romance
Film Details
Demetrio Cultrera, known as Dedé, is a young Sicilian playboy, rich and bachelor, who gets engaged to the beautiful and very rich Rosalba, daughter of the local "king of the Jordanian tuna". After marriage, the attitude of the emancipated Rosalba, who tries to impose a "modern" marital life on her husband, collides with the "traditionalist" stereotypes of the spouse who badly endures the distortion of the classic wife-husband relationship and, still less, the constant attempts to convert him to the rites of "enlightened" high society. Dede tries to indulge his wife, but becomes increasingly hostile to her tastes and habits, to her sexually castrating observations and to her unbearable radical chic friends [1].
To find an outlet for his needs as a "free-range male", he accepts the offer of the mature and fiery Elena, of whom he becomes the lover. But the situation worsens and Dedè is squeezed between Rosalba's irritating arrogance and Elena's obsessive passion. Seen deprived of any hope of having a quiet and traditional relationship, he decides to sever the relationship with his lover and separate from his wife.
Strongly determined to build a stable relationship with a woman who can achieve her ideal of a quiet life, he leaves for the Amazon, where he is offered the opportunity to choose and buy a slave to take to Italy. Taken to a remote jungle village by nostalgic former Luftwaffe airman Von Shirac, his choice falls on the beautiful and docile Manua. Back in Italy, Dedè proudly shows her to friends and ex-wife, attracting the envy of one and the resentment of the other.
Dede soon ends up falling in love with Manua, but, not wanting to make her friends understand this feeling, in public, he pretends to treat her as a slave. After the controversy and hostility of the citizens, due to blatant actions (such as being chauffeured in a rickshaw by Manua barefoot throughout the city) he also attracts the attention of the police who have the girl expelled from Italy. Only at final, thanks to the recommendation of a deputy, lover of his ex-wife, he manages to keep Manua with him.
Everything is resolved, but after years of living together some perplexity emerges.