Speriamo che sia femmina

Let us hope that it is a girl ( Original title: che sia Speriamo femmina ) is a 1986 incurred in Italy feature from director Mario Monicelli. In this drama Monicelli addressed uncertainty about the future, withdrawal from responsibility and the failure of marriages and love relationships and sets the at the end of a feminist utopia contrary. The film was shot in seven categories with the David di Donatello awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay, as well as with Nastri d' Argento in six categories, including Best Director and Best Screenplay. Among the films he visited in Italy in 1986 was ranked 13th place with over 400,000 entries. In the Federal Republic of Germany, he was not in the cinema.

Andreas Kilb of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said the film only in passing in a solid game and called him a sad example of the decline of the Italian cinema, because it will his " comedic substance totgeredet formally in the same old television dialogues ". For the lexicon of international film, it is a " not told without charm, but arg lengthy guessed Star - comedy" that never reach the " intellectual depth " that you find in similar topics aufgriefenden works of Ingmar Bergman or Woody Allen.

Action

Elena Leonardi has separated from her husband, Leonardo, and is pulled out of Rome on an estate in Tuscany. There she lives with her daughters and Martina Franca and Malvina, the daughter of her sister Claudia living in Rome, and its age-related muddled -headed uncle Gugo. In addition, the housekeeper and her daughter Fosca care of the household.

Unexpectedly encounters a Leonardo with Elena and asks her to put a large sum in a real estate project for which he has already borrowed heavily. It suggests his desire. On the return trip to Rome Leonardo died in an accident with his car. Franca and Malvina it loads to her mother Elena that her father was killed. Franca zerstreitet with her mother and takes in Rome with her fiancé an apartment. Elena now wants to move back to Rome and to sell the estate. First, she takes care of her uncle Gugo be placed in a nursing home. Malvina travels with her Aunt Claudia and Martina advance to Rome. There, Claudia arguing constantly with her lover, and Franca's relationship with her ​​fiance is already cooled considerably. Finally, all women decide to live again on the estate, and take Uncle Gugo back to live with him. Franca admits that she is pregnant what it says: "Let us hope that it will be a girl. "

Awards

  • David di Donatello: Best Picture
  • Best Director: Mario Monicelli
  • Best Set Design: Tullio Pinelli, Mario Monicelli, Suso Cecchi d' Amico, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi
  • Best Editing: Ruggero Mastroianni
  • Best Supporting Actor: Bernard Blier
  • Best Supporting Actress: Athina Cenci
  • Best Producer: Giovanni Di Clemente
France 1986 in film Film score Nicola Piovani Camillo Bazzoni Paul Muller (actor)
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