The Swinging Confessors

{{short description|1971 film by Marco Vicario}} {{Infobox film | name =The Swinging Confessors | image = The Swinging Confessors.jpg | caption = | director = Marco Vicario | writer = Marco Vicario | starring = Lando Buzzanca <br />Rossana Podestà | music = Armando Trovajoli | cinematography = Sandro D'Eva | editing = Nino Baragli | producer = | country = Italy | language = Italian | released = {{Film date|1970}} }} '''''The Swinging Confessors''''' ({{langx|it|'''Il prete sposato'''}}), also known as ''Intimacy'' and ''The Married Priest'', is a 1970 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marco Vicario.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|publisher=Gremese, 1991|isbn=8876059350}}</ref><ref name=stracult>{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario dei film italiani stracult|year=1999|publisher=Sperling & Kupfer|isbn=8820029197}}</ref>

==Plot == A young Sicilian priest who moved to Rome comes into contact with the upper class and receives constant sexual solicitations. He then falls in love with a prostitute and asks his superiors for permission to marry her while remaining a priest. But she understands that for him the priestly mission is everything and decides to leave him alone.

== Cast == * Lando Buzzanca: Don Salvatore * Rossana Podestà: Silvia * Salvo Randone: Don Clemente * Magali Noël: Miss Bellini * Luciano Salce: Monsignor Torelli * Silvia Dionisio: Liliana Bellini * Mariangela Melato: Prostitute * Enrico Maria Salerno: Don Calogero * Barbara Bouchet: Miss Marchio * Karin Schubert: Blonde on bicycle * Ely Galleani: Paola

== See also == * List of Italian films of 1970

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0067609}}

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