The Career of a Chambermaid(1976)

movie - first aired/released 1976-02-06 - 111 min - audience 5.1

Comedy, Romance, Drama

Directed by Dino Risi

This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.