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Divorce Italian Style 4K UHD + Blu-Ray (US Import)
Criterion

Pre-order - Release date: 01.12.2026

Original title: Divorzio all'italiana

Year: 1961
Country: Italy
Region code: 4K UHD: A/B/C; Blu-Ray: A
Content: 4K UHD + Blu-Ray
EAN: 715515345217

Image: 1.85:1 (2160p)

HDR: -

Audio: Italian - Uncompressed Mono

Subtitles: English

Age rating: Not Rated

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli

Director: Pietro Germi


Synopsis:

In this black-comic masterpiece, director Pietro Germi delivers a diabolically subversive satire of the Italian family structure, Catholic piety, and male chauvinism. Sending up his own suave image, Marcello Mastroianni stars as the middle-aged scion of a faded aristocratic Sicilian family who pines after his younger cousin (Stefania Sandrelli). The problem: he’s married, in a country where divorce is illegal. Cue the murderous fantasies that drive him down an increasingly deranged path of self-delusion and self-destruction. Laying bare the absurd contradictions of bourgeois morality with each audacious twist, Germi serves up an acerbic portrait of a tradition-bound culture colliding with the unstoppable force of modernity.

Bonus features:

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• The Man with a Cigar in His Mouth, a documentary by critic Mario Sesti featuring interviews with longtime friends and collaborators of director Pietro Germi’s
• Interviews with Sesti and actors Lando Buzzanca and Stefania Sandrelli
• Interview with screenwriter Ennio De Concini
• Screen tests with Sandrelli and actor Daniela Rocca
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Stuart Klawans