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La locandiera
La locandiera
Directed by	Paolo Cavara
Written by	Carlo Goldoni (play), Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Lucia Dembry
Starring	Claudia Mori; Adriano Celentano; Paolo Villaggio; Marco Messeri
Cinematography	Mario Vulpiani
Edited by	Angelo Curi
Music by	Detto Mariano
Release date	1980;
Running time	109 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

La locandiera (also known as Mirandolina) is a 1980 Italian comedy film directed by Paolo Cavara, based on the Carlo Goldoni's three-act comedy The Mistress of the Inn.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Mirandolina is famed for her beauty and runs an inn. From the outset, the count of Alba Fiorita and the marquis of Forlimpopoli are madly in love with her. The two nobles give her extravagant gifts, trying to impress and marry her. The cunning Mirandolina accepts their money and jewels without giving them her hand. A third man arrives on the scene: the Cavaliere di Ripafratta. He is extremely misogynistic and thinks that women bring only trouble to men.

Mirandolina, who had never encountered a man like this, is deeply offended and takes it upon herself to teach him a lesson. She goes out of her way to make him fall in love with her. She succeeds and leads him to publicly admit in public that he has fallen in love with a woman. As a final punishment for his misogyny, she cruelly rejects him.

In the end, the beautiful Mirandolina realizes she loves Fabrizio, her waiter. She abandons her hobby of "falling in love with men" and decides to remain faithful only to him.

Cast

Claudia Mori as Mirandolina
Adriano Celentano as Cavaliere di Ripafratta
Paolo Villaggio as Marchese di Forlimpopoli
Marco Messeri as Conte di Albafiorita
Lorenza Guerrieri as Ortensia
Gianni Cavina as Fabrizio
Milena Vukotic as Dejanira
Camillo Milli as Carlo Goldoni

References

^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia (2000). Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 2000. ISBN 8877424230.
^ Enrico Giacovelli (1995). La commedia all'italiana. Gremese Editore, 1995. ISBN 8876058737.