Naughty Nun

{{short description|1972 film by Mariano Laurenti}} {{Infobox film | image = La bella Antonia, prima monica e poi dimonia.jpg | caption = | director = Mariano Laurenti | writer = Carlo Veo | starring = Edwige Fenech | music = Berto Pisano | cinematography = Tino Santoni | editing = | producer = | country = Italy | language = Italian | released = {{Film date|1972}} }} '''''Naughty Nun''''' ({{Langx|it|La bella Antonia, prima monica e poi dimonia|lit=Beautiful Antonia, First a Nun Then a Demon}}) is a 1972 Italian commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Mariano Laurenti.<ref name="70-79 a-l">{{cite book|author1=Chiti, Roberto |author2=Poppi, Roberto |author3=Lancia, Enrico |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|chapter=La bella Antonia, prima monica e poi dimonia|publisher=Gremese|date=1991|isbn=8876059350}}</ref>

== Cast == *Edwige Fenech: Antonia *Piero Focaccia: Painter Claudio Fornari *Dada Gallotti: Domicilla *Riccardo Garrone: Giovanni Piccolomini *Malisa Longo: Caterina *Luciana Turina: Madre badessa *Umberto D'Orsi: Domenico Mincaglia *Lucretia Love: Ippolita *Tiberio Murgia: Fra' Filippuccio *Elio Crovetto: Fra' Pomponio

== Production == The film was a co-production between Flora Film, Lea Film, and National Cinematografica.<ref name="bio"></ref> It was shot between Gubbio and Elios Studios in Rome.<ref name="bio"></ref> == Release == The film was released in Italian cinemas by Variety on 23 August 1972.<ref name="bio"></ref> Almost two years after its release, on 8 July 1974, Catanzaro praetor Donato Massimo Bartolomei banned the film for breaching the decency code; his ruling was overturned on 5 August 1974.<ref name="bio"></ref>

== Reception == Domestically the film grossed about 520 million lire.<ref name="bio">{{Cite book |last=Giusti |first=Marco |author-link=Marco Giusti |title=Dizionario Stracult della commedia sexy |date=2019 |publisher=Bloodbuster edizioni |isbn=978-88-943385-3-9 |page=122-3 | language=it |chapter=La bella Antonia, prima monica e poi dimonia}}</ref> Leonardo Autera on ''Corriere della Sera'' described it as a film "bordering on pornography and stuffed to the point of boredom with the heaviest profanity", with Laurenti's direction "at the extreme end of technical illiteracy".<ref>{{cite news |title=Rassegna cinematografica - La bella Antonia, prima monica e poi dimonia |work=Corriere della Sera |date=18 November 1972 |page=12}}</ref>

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==External links== *{{IMDb title}} Category:1972 films Category:Films directed by Mariano Laurenti Category:Commedia sexy all'italiana Category:1970s sex comedy films Category:Films scored by Berto Pisano Category:1972 Italian-language films Category:1972 Italian films