Il merlo maschio
Il merlo maschio The Male Blackbird, known in United Kingdom as The Naked Cello or Secret Fantasy in USA, is an Italian motion picture, filmed in 1971 by director Pasquale Festa Campanile.
This was an attempt by him to show his frustration, and he was immediately envied, when he managed to show off his beautiful wife. Nobody could steal his wife, because in Italy there wasnt divorce. And the young, beautiful and simple wife Laura Antonelli, a perplexed but pleasant woman from the countryside allows herself to be carried inside a cellos case, in order to be shown over a bridge in Verona an idea that seems a marvellous reworking of the renowned photograph by the dadaist artist Man Ray.This motion picture was filmed in Verona, and it shows many situations in the environment of practicing symphonic orchestras that at certain moment of the year are allowed to play in Arena. Il Merlo Maschio represents the Commedia allitaliana. ........
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