Wondrous Boccaccio

Wondrous Boccaccio

2015 · 116 min · ★ 5.8 · Comedy, History, Drama, Romance

It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.

Directed by Paolo Taviani · Written by Paolo Taviani

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Lello Arena Duca Tancredi
Paola Cortellesi Badessa Usimbalda
Carolina Crescentini Isabetta
Flavio Parenti Nicoluccio Cacciamanico
Vittoria Puccini Catalina
Michele Riondino Guiscardo
Kim Rossi Stuart Calandrino
Riccardo Scamarcio Gentile Carisendi
Kasia Smutniak Ghismunda
Jasmine Trinca Giovanna
Josafat Vagni Federico degli Alberighi
Melissa Anna Bartolini Elissa

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