The Ribald Decameron

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The Ribald Decameron
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Directed by Giuseppe Vari
Written byGastone Ramazzotti
Antonio Racioppi
Starring Malisa Longo
Giacomo Rizzo
Orchidea De Santis
CinematographyCarlo Cerchio
Edited byManlio Camastro
Music byMario Bertolazzi
Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
Running time
85 min
Country Italy
LanguageItalian

The Ribald Decameron (Italian : Beffe, licenzie et amori del Decamerone segreto, also known as Love, Passion and Pleasure) is a 1972 Italian commedia sexy all'italiana film directed by Giuseppe Vari (here credited as Walter Pisani). Nominally based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel Decameron , it is part of a series of derivative erotic comedies based on the success of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Decameron . [1] [2]

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Plot summary

In the Middle Ages, the intrepid Cecco earns eating in taverns and squares as a novelist. His specialty is to re-read the Decameron of Boccaccio, narrating the stories most erotic and licentious, whose theme loves of nuns and friars, and rich women who want to fool their old husbands with bold boys.

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