Handsome Antonio
The extraordinary journey of this actor, a leading figure in Italian and European cinema for over three decades, brings us back to the heart of the most demanding auteur cinema, as well as to the most inventive, joyful, and iconic popular films. With a unique sense of style and a casual elegance, he became one of the most accomplished embodiments of the screen actor.
Winner of the Golden Leopard, 1960 Locarno International Film Festival
Sicily, 1950s. Antonio, a recently married young bourgeois, faces a scandal when it is revealed that his marriage to Barbara remains unconsummated after twelve months.

Mauro Bolognini
Mauro Bolognini is an Italian film and theater director, and screenwriter. After earning a master's degree in architecture at the University of Florence, Bolognini enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, where he studied stage design. After graduation, he became interested in film direction and set out to work as an assistant to directors Luigi Zampa in Italy, and Yves Allégret and Jean Delannoy in France. In 1953, he released his first feature film, I’ll See You on the Balcony, starring Alberto Sordi and Sophia Loren. He directed many comedies in the 1950s, several of them with Totò, and reached the height of his popularity in the 1960s by adapting literary classics by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alberto Moravia, Italo Svevo, Vitaliano Brancati (Handsome Antonio, 1960) to the screen.
