Weekend, Italian Style

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L'ombrellone
L'ombrellone.jpg
Directed by Dino Risi
Written by Ennio De Concini
Dino Risi
Produced by Mario Cecchi Gori
Starring Sandra Milo
Enrico Maria Salerno
Jean Sorel
Leopoldo Trieste
Cinematography Armando Nannuzzi
Edited by Franco Fraticelli
Emilio Rodríguez
Music by Lelio Luttazzi
Release dates
  • 1966 (1966)(Italy)
  • 6 February 1967 (1967-02-06)(Spain)
  • January 1968 (1968-01)(U.S.)
Running time
103 Min
Country Italy
Language Italian

L'ombrellone or Weekend, Italian Style is a 1966 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Dino Risi. It was co-produced with Spain and France. The soundtrack is full of Italian Pop songs from the 1960s.

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Plot

Ferragosto in Rome. Everybody is on holidays on the beach, except Enrico Marletti (Enrico Maria Salerno), who spends the week working. On the weekends, he drives to Rimini to meet his wife Giuliana (Sandra Milo), but she is living her dolce vita (sweet life) and her husband is out of place amidst her chic friends.

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