To Save Nine (1989)

6.3/10 • 86 min • Drama TV Movie

Overview

Originally titled simply Decimo Clandestino, this Lina Wertmuller "miniature" began life as an Italian TV drama. Piera Degli Esposti plays the widowed, impoverished mother of a huge farm family. The woman moves her nine children to Bologna, where their living conditions are deplorable. To avoid a hike in rent, she tells her landlady (Dominique Sanda) that she is living alone. Also known as To Save Nine (a curiously brief English-language title for a Wertmuller film!), IL Decimo Clandestino was expanded from 60 to 90 minutes for its theatrical release.

Cast

Piera Degli Esposti

Marcella Baralli

Dominique Sanda

Hartmut Becker

Susanna Marcomeni

Giorgio Trestini

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