The Girl with the Pistol

La ragazza con la pistola
Directed byMario Monicelli
Written byLuigi Magni
Rodolfo Sonego
Produced byGianni Hecht Lucari
StarringMonica Vitti
Stanley Baker
Carlo Giuffrè
Corin Redgrave
Anthony Booth
Johnny Briggs
CinematographyCarlo Di Palma
Edited byRuggero Mastroianni
Music byPeppino De Luca
Distributed byDocumento Film
Release date
  • 1968 (1968)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

The Girl with the Pistol (Italian: La ragazza con la pistola) is a 1968 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli.[1] It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Monica Vitti won the David di Donatello for Best Actress.

The film tackled the themes of bride kidnapping and honour killing, which were still relevant in the Southern Italian culture of the time and normalized to some extent by Italian law, and had then only recently been challenged when Franca Viola publicly refused to marry the man who raped her.

  1. ^ "The 41st Academy Awards (1969) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-11-15.

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