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After deserting, he is captured by the Germans and sent to a concentration camp. The Ultimate Sacrifice

Seven Beauties is a "painful, startling reflection" on how easily society accepts cruelty and how the "normal" can do terrible things to survive. It’s a film that demands to be seen, even as it makes you want to look away.

Beyond directing, it earned nominations for Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Foreign Language Film . Final Thoughts Pasqualino_Settebellezze_1974_HD_-_Altadefinizi...

It seamlessly blends slapstick comedy with the "absolute lowest depths of human cruelty".

For this film, Lina Wertmüller became the first woman ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director . After deserting, he is captured by the Germans

To avoid prison, he pleads insanity, only to volunteer for the Italian Army to escape the horrors of the psychiatric ward.

The story follows Pasqualino Frafuso (played with "fearless" intensity by Giancarlo Giannini), a petty Neapolitan thug nicknamed "Seven Beauties" for his seven unattractive sisters. Pasqualino is obsessed with a "macho" concept of family honor. His journey is a series of increasingly desperate choices: Beyond directing, it earned nominations for Best Actor,

The Grotesque Honor of Survival: Revisiting Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975)