Mimì metallurgico ferito nell’onore (1972)

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Synopsis

Giancarlo Giannini gives a wonderfully comic performance as the sad sack Mimi, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote for the Mafia’s candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife and his home. At rock bottom, he revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful, radical Fiorella, with whom he starts a new life as a reliable husband and father. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor, an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences.

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Domestic Releases: April 24th, 2026 (Limited) by Kino Lorber, released as The Seduction of Mimi (4K Restoration)
International Releases: February 19th, 1972 (Limited) (Italy)
Plot point: Spoof
Subgenre: Sex Comedy
Source:Original Screenplay
Genre:Black Comedy
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Contemporary Fiction
Production Countries: Italy
Languages: Italian


Synopsis

Giancarlo Giannini gives a wonderfully comic performance as the sad sack Mimi, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote for the Mafia’s candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife and his home. At rock bottom, he revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful, radical Fiorella, with whom he starts a new life as a reliable husband and father. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor, an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences.

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Movie Details

Domestic Releases: April 24th, 2026 (Limited) by Kino Lorber, released as The Seduction of Mimi (4K Restoration)
International Releases: February 19th, 1972 (Limited) (Italy)
Plot point: Spoof
Subgenre: Sex Comedy
Source:Original Screenplay
Genre:Black Comedy
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Contemporary Fiction
Production Countries: Italy
Languages: Italian