Seven Beauties (1975)

Academy Awards, USA 1977

Nominated Oscar	Best Actor in a Leading Role Giancarlo Giannini
	Best Director Lina Wertmüller Lina Wertmüller becomes the first woman to be nominated for Best Director.
	Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Lina Wertmüller
	Best Foreign Language Film Italy

Medusa Distribuzione (Italy)
Directed by Lina Wertmüller
My rating: 3.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Koch Lorber)

Two men wander in the woods of Germany during WWII. They witness a mass execution of Jews. One of the men recounts the events of his life in Italy prior to the war through flashbacks. He murders the lover of one of his sisters in a rage of jealousy and is eventually arrested. He pleads insanity, though he is completely sane, and is sent to an asylum. His friendly doctor manages to get him released but he must join the army. In a German concentration camp, he again demonstrates that he is willing to go to any length necessary to survive. As harrowing a portrait of the horrors of WWII that has ever been put on film. Its disgusting imagery and debase morality will likely never leave you, which perhaps is the point of it all.