Seven Beauties. Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller directs the black comedy set during World War II. Pasqualino Frafuso (Giancarlo Giannini) ends up lost in a dense forest along with fellow army deserter Francesco Piero De Orio Pasqualino, reveals his criminal past where back in Naples he was known as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties", a petty thief who lived off the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost. When Totonno (Mario Conti) pimps out his sister Concettina {Elena Fiore}, Pasqualino kills him, chops up his body, and mails each piece across the country. He is then arrested and later sent to fight in the army after commiting sexual assault on a patient. The Germans capture him, and he gets sent to a concentration camp, where he plots to make his escape by attempting to seduce a German officer (Shirley Stoler). "One of the strangest and most intriguing of recent European films...absorbing and mysterious"--Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times. "A disorderly epic seductively beautiful to look at as often harrowing as it is boisterously funny"--Vincent Canby, The New York Times. "Four Stars! Fascinating and provocative"--Leonard Maltin, Movie and Video Guide. "Smashing!"--Time Magazine. Academy Awards Nominee: Best Actor, Giancarlo Giannini. Best Director. Best Foreign Language Film. Best Writing, Screenplay. Golden Globes Nominee: Best Foreign Film. Starring Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore. Produced by Giancarlo Giannini, Arrigo Columbo, Lina Wertmüller, Written and Directed by Lina Wertm&uum;ller. KOCH Lorber Films LLC.