Adua and Her Friends

Adua and Her Friends; (Adua e le compagne)
Directed by	Antonio Pietrangeli
Produced by	Moris Ergas
Written by	Ruggero Maccari, Antonio Pietrangeli, Ettore Scola, Tullio Pinelli
Starring	Sandra Milo, Marcello Mastroianni, Simone Signoret
Music by	Piero Piccioni
Cinematography	Armando Nannuzzi
Edited by	Eraldo Da Roma
Distributed by	Titanus
Release date	1960
Running time	106 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Adua and Her Friends (Italian: Adua e le compagne), also known as Hungry For Love, is a 1960 Italian film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli with a collaborative screenplay by the film's director together with Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola and Tullio Pinelli. The movie is about four prostitutes who start a restaurant after their brothel is shut down by the Merlin law, which made brothels illegal in Italy.

Plot

In 1958, the Merlin law made brothels illegal in Italy. Adua, Lolita, Marilina and Millie are four prostitutes whose brothel in Rome is shut down. Under Adua's leadership, they pool their savings, two million lire apiece, to open a restaurant on the outskirts, which will be a cover for an illegal brothel. They rent a run-down building and hire workmen to fix it up but, when they apply for a permit to open the restaurant, their application is rejected because of their history of prostitution. One of Adua's former customers, Ercoli, agrees to buy the building and use his connections to get the permit in his name, in return for a rent of one million lire a month.

The restaurant turns out to be unexpectedly successful, and the women effectively abandon their plans to offer sexual services and start to lead respectable lives. But the restaurant doesn't earn as much as they could make as a brothel, and they can't pay Ercoli his rent. Ercoli gives them an ultimatum: start working as prostitutes again, and pay him his rent, or he will kick them out in 24 hours. When Ercoli returns, Adua refuses, humiliates him, and he leaves. In revenge, he has them all arrested for prostitution, their pictures are in the newspapers, and their respectable lives are destroyed. Adua ends up working in the streets again.

Cast

Simone Signoret: Adua Giovannetti
Sandra Milo: Lolita
Emmanuelle Riva: Marilina
Gina Rovere: Milly
Claudio Gora: Ercoli
Ivo Garrani: Avvocato
Gianrico Tedeschi: Stefano
Antonio Rais: Emilio
Duilio D'Amore: Frate Michele
Valeria Fabrizi: Fosca la bionda
Luciana Gilli: Dora
Enzo Maggio: Calypso
Domenico Modugno: Himself
Marcello Mastroianni: Piero Silvagni

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References

Salvatori, Alessandra. "Adua e le compagne – Recensione DVD – scheda, trailer, foto, dvd". RECENSIONE DVD Adua e le compagne. Archived from the original on April 27, 2006. Retrieved January 14, 2006.

External links

Adua and Her Friends on IMDb

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