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To Save Nine

Not Rated Drama TV Movie

Starring: Piera Degli Esposti, Dominique Sanda, Hartmut Becker, Susanna Marcomeni, Giorgio Trestini

Writer: Giovanni Guareschi, Lina Wertmüller

Release Date:
March 25, 1989
Ratings:
6.0 / 10
Director:
Lina Wertmüller
Companies:
Reteitalia

Overview

Originally titled simply Decimo Clandestino, this Lina Wertmuller "miniature" began life as an Italian TV drama. Piera Degli Esposti plays the widowed, impoverished mother of a huge farm family. The woman moves her nine children to Bologna, where their living conditions are deplorable. To avoid a hike in rent, she tells her landlady (Dominique Sanda) that she is living alone. Also known as To Save Nine (a curiously brief English-language title for a Wertmuller film!), IL Decimo Clandestino was expanded from 60 to 90 minutes for its theatrical release.