Appassionata (1974 film)

Appassionata
Appassionata
Directed by	Gianluigi Calderone
Written by	Gianluigi Calderone; Alessandro Parenzo; Domenico Rafele
Starring	Gabriele Ferzetti; Ornella Muti; Eleonora Giorgi; Valentina Cortese
Cinematography	Armando Nannuzzi
Edited by	Nino Baragli
Music by	Piero Piccioni
Release date	1974;
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Appassionata (also known as Passionate) is a 1974 Italian erotic drama film directed by and co-written by Gianluigi Calderone.

The film stars Gabriele Ferzetti as a dentist whose stable life is put into jeopardy when his daughter and her friend, played by Ornella Muti and Eleonora Giorgi, begin sexually pursuing him.

Plot

Emilio is a dentist whose mentally unbalanced wife never goes out, spending much of the day at her piano. Their daughter Eugenia brings home a school friend, Nicola, who is sympathetic towards the mother but also tries quick sex with the father. Perhaps jealous, Eugenia then tries to seduce her father. When the mother eventually has to be placed in a clinic, it is Nicola who puts the grieving Emilio to bed. In the morning, it is Eugenia who gets out of his bed and the two girls put on their uniforms to go off to school.