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If you have ever wondered just how low a person will sink to stay alive, provides a haunting, darkly comedic answer in her 1975 masterpiece, Seven Beauties (originally Pasqualino Settebellezze ).

After deserting, he is captured by the Germans and sent to a concentration camp. The Ultimate Sacrifice Pasqualino_Settebellezze_1974_HD_-_Altadefinizi...

To avoid prison, he pleads insanity, only to volunteer for the Italian Army to escape the horrors of the psychiatric ward. If you have ever wondered just how low

The story follows Pasqualino Frafuso (played with "fearless" intensity by Giancarlo Giannini), a petty Neapolitan thug nicknamed "Seven Beauties" for his seven unattractive sisters. Pasqualino is obsessed with a "macho" concept of family honor. His journey is a series of increasingly desperate choices: The story follows Pasqualino Frafuso (played with "fearless"

Seven Beauties is a "painful, startling reflection" on how easily society accepts cruelty and how the "normal" can do terrible things to survive. It’s a film that demands to be seen, even as it makes you want to look away.

It seamlessly blends slapstick comedy with the "absolute lowest depths of human cruelty".

For this film, Lina Wertmüller became the first woman ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director .