Fallo!

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Fallo
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DVD cover
Directed by Tinto Brass
Written by
  • Tinto Brass
  • Carla Cipriani
  • Massimiliano Zanin
Produced by
  • Giovanni Bertolucci
  • Roberto Di Girolamo
  • Ugo Tucci
Starring
  • Sara Cosmi
  • Massimiliano Caroletti
  • William De Vito
CinematographyFederico Del Zoppo
Edited byTinto Brass
Music byFrancesco Santucci
Production
companies
  • Italgest Video
  • Letizia Cinematografica
Release date
  • 2003 (2003)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
Budget$90,000
Box office€237,679 (Italy)

Fallo! is a 2003 Italian film co-written and directed by Tinto Brass. The film is known in English as Do It! (English translation of Fallo!) and Private. [1] The title is pun on the term "Fallo!" meaning in Italian both "Do It" and "Phallus" and the movie itself consists of a series of 6 independent vignettes.

Contents

Vignettes

  1. ALIBI: Cinzia celebrates her seventh year of marriage with her husband in Casablanca. The vignette starts with the husband making Cinzia retell her gynecologist's visit with a sexy twist. The husband then arranges for her to have sex with Ali, a hotel worker. He assures a reluctant Cinzia that it will all occur naturally, leading to both the husband and Ali having sex with Cinzia.
  2. MONTAGGIO ALTERNATO ("Alternate Montage"): Stefania is the wife of distinguished TV news anchor Luigi who becomes enraged when she finds out her husband is having an affair with Erika. She takes in a new lover in television director Bruno. Includes a scene with brief finger penetration on Federica Tommasi and oral sex on Andrea Nobili. [2]
  3. 2 CUORI & 1 CAPANNA ("2 Hearts & 1 Hut"): The sweet Katarina Alto Adige is paid generously to meet with the perverse Frau Bertha, a German dominatrix and her male slave in a small Tyrolean guesthouse. The scheme was concocted by her boyfriend, Neapolitan chef Cyrus, so that they can open his own restaurant.
  4. BOTTE D’ALLEGRIA ("Barrel Of Joy"): Raffaella regales her husband with stories of her affairs, some of which are very strange. Her husband enjoys this, and encourages her to keep cheating on him.
  5. HONNI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE: In the beautiful village of Cap d'Agde, Anna has leisurely fun with Mrs. Helen and her husband, Scottish satirist Mr. Noel.
  6. DIMME PORCA CHE ME PIAZE ("Call me a slut, I like it"): Venetian Rosy is on her honeymoon with her husband in London and agrees to a dare that she must have sex in public.

Principal cast

ActorRole
Sara CosmiCinzia
Massimiliano CarolettiGianni
William De VitoAli
Maruska AlbertazziAnna
Raffaella PonzoMaid
Virginia BarrettFrau Bertha
Tinto BrassVoyeur

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References

  1. "Fallo! - Cast and Crew". AllRovi. 2011-08-04. Archived from the original on 2012-07-19. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
  2. Fallo! at the European Girls Adult Film Database]