Marriage Italian Style

The lives of a rich man and a broke prostitute collide during post-WWII Italy in this 1964 romance.

In Naples, in the Second World War, the wolf businessman Domenico Soriano meets the 17-year-old sex worker Filumena Marturano in a brothel during an allied bombing. Two years later, in the post-war, they meet each other by chance and begin a long affair. For 22 years, Filumena is his mistress and administrates his shops in Naples while Domenico is traveling. When Domenico decides to marry the young cashier of his bakery, Filumena lures him as if she were near to death and he marries her.

Later he annuls their matrimony, and she tells him that she has three sons that she raised secretly, one of them is his legitimate son but she does not disclose his identity. The middle-age Domenico uses the most different subterfuges trying to find which teenager might be his son.

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