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La moglie del sarto (2014)

95 min · Drama

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Directors

Massimo Scaglione

Cast

Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Marta Gastini, Alessio Vassallo, Ernesto Mahieux

In a small southern town in the 1960s, a widow and her daughter fight to protect their family tailoring shop from a councillor who wants its property for a hotel.

The story

In the 1960s, after her husband’s sudden death, Rosetta is left to defend her dignity and the family tailoring shop alongside her daughter, Sofia. The town councillor, Cordaro, wants the centrally located property for a tourist hotel as part of a development project directed by an unscrupulous engineer from the North. With some townspeople’s help, Cordaro slanders Rosetta and Sofia in an effort to deprive them of work and force them to sell. Meanwhile, two young puppeteers, Salvatore and Francesco, arrive in town, and Salvatore falls in love with Sofia.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

The 1960s. After the sudden death of her husband, a tailor who made clothes exclusively for men, Rosetta, a captivating woman from a small town in the South, is abandoned by everyone and forced to fight alongside her daughter Sofia to defend her dignity and the family tailoring shop. The town councillor Cordaro wants to seize the property, which stands in the center of town and has a beautiful sea view, and turn it into a hotel for tourists as part of a development project orchestrated by a unscrupulous engineer from the North. With the help of some townspeople, Cordaro begins to slander Rosetta and Sofia, hoping to leave them without work and force them to sell the shop. Meanwhile, Salvatore and Francesco, two young puppeteers, arrive in town, and Salvatore falls in love with Sofia. With Rosetta's approval, and to the astonishment of the townspeople, the two marry. But Sofia is unable to have children, and the self-righteous townspeople begin casting doubt on the legitimacy of the marriage.

Genres

Drama

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