Man, Woman and Beast

Man, Woman and Beast

A Feast For All Of The Senses!

1977 · 100 min · ★ 5.4 · Drama

A small town in Italy is about to celebrate their patron saint. The city is full of people with different problems. A Communist in existentialist crisis that also must take care of his mentally ill wife. A woman who is tired of her husband's inability to show emotions and therefore more and more often slips into the world of dreams. A perverse butcher engaged in sex with the meat he sells when he's not peeping on young girls. A girl who became pregnant after having sex with her father. In this town a mysterious stranger show up and who turns on several of the inhabitants lives.

Directed by Alberto Cavallone · Written by Alberto Cavallone

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