The Birds, the Bees and the Italians

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Signore & Signori (The Birds, the Bees and the Italians)
Original film poster
Directed by	Pietro Germi
Written by	Age Pietro Germi Luciano Vincenzoni
Starring	Virna Lisi Gastone Moschin Nora Ricci
Cinematography	Aiace Parolin
Music by	Carlo Rustichelli
Distributed by	Dear Film
Release date	10 February 1966 (1966-02-10) (Italy) 24 June 1966 (1966-06-24) (France)
Running time	115 minutes
Countries	Italy France
Language	Italian

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians is a 1966 Italian film directed by Pietro Germi. Its original Italian title is Signore & Signori, which means 'Ladies and Gentlemen'.

The anthology film is a sex comedy that presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso. In the first story, a husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair. In the second, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them. In the third, men of the town all seduce a promiscuous teenager, but her father eventually reveals that she is underage, and they face prosecution for statutory rape.

The film shared the Grand Prix with A Man and a Woman at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival.^[1] It was later selected for screening as part of the Cannes Classics section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

Cast[]

• Virna Lisi – Milena Zulian
• Gastone Moschin – Osvaldo Bisigato
• Nora Ricci – Gilda Bisigato
• Alberto Lionello – Toni Gasparini
• Olga Villi – Ippolita Gasparini
• Franco Fabrizi – Lino Benedetti
• Beba Lončar – Noemi Castellan
• Gigi Ballista – Giacinto Castellan
• Carlo Bagno – Bepi Cristofoletto
• – Alda Cristofoletto
• – Newspaper editor
• – Giovanni Soligo
• – Betty Soligo
• Moira Orfei – Giorgia Casellato
• – Don Schiavon

References[]

External links[]

• Signore & signori at IMDb
• The Birds, the Bees and the Italians at Rotten Tomatoes
• Cannes profile

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