Till Marriage Do Us Part

Till Marriage Do Us Part

1974 · 110 min · IT · 5.8 (38 votes)
Dir. Luigi Comencini · Starring Laura Antonelli, Alberto Lionello, Michele Placido, Jean Rochefort, Ugo Pagliai, Rosemary Dexter · Music Fiorenzo Carpi
Comedy

In early 20th-century Sicily, Eugenia Di Maqueda and Raimondo Corrao discover on their wedding night that they are brother and sister and therefore unable to consummate their marriage. For the sake of the family inheritance and honour, the two decide not to reveal the truth to anyone. In public, they will play the part of husband and wife, but in private they will live in absolute chastity as siblings. Meanwhile, the beautiful Eugenia’s urgent carnal desires become increasingly pressing...

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A scandalous, darkly comedic romp through forbidden desires and societal pressures. It's a tragicomic exploration of duty versus desire, wrapped in the opulent yet suffocating atmosphere of a bygone era.

darkly comedicscandalousabsurdisttragicomicsteadyEuropean arthouseperiod dramadark comedyincestscandalforbidden desiresocial facade