Paprika

Name: Paprika
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 1991-02-13
Duration: 1 h 56 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Debora Caprioglio, Stéphane Ferrara, Martine Brochard, Stéphane Bonnet, Rossana Gavinel

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Paprika (1991)

Timing: 1:56 (116 min)

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Release date

1991-02-13

Country

Italy

Production

Scena Group, San Francisco Film, Scena Film

Genre

Drama, Comedy

Budget

Box office

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Director

Tinto Brass

Actors

Debora Caprioglio, Stéphane Ferrara, Martine Brochard, Stéphane Bonnet, Rossana Gavinel, Renzo Rinaldi, Nina Soldano, Clara Algranti, Luciana Cirenei, John Steiner
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Scenario

Tinto Brass, Bernardino Zapponi

Producer

Augusto Caminito, Giuseppe Auriemma

Camera operator

Silvano Ippoliti

Composer

Riz Ortolani

Artist

Paolo Biagetti

Audition

Claudio Bernabei

Editing

Tinto Brass
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Short description

In 1957 Trieste, a few months before the general ban on brothels, inexperienced country girl Mimma becomes Paprika to finance her useless boyfriend as a prostitute. Amid the hustle and bustle of Rome, Paprika drifts from one brothel to another as she learns the ropes and works her way up one client at a time. However, as Paprika embarks on a stormy journey of self-discovery and sexual liberation, the sense that something is missing haunts her. Is Paprika meant to experience a passionate romance and solve the great mystery of true love?

What's left behind the scenes

Initially, Tinto Brass planned to simply adapt John Cleland's scandalous novel for its time, "Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" (1709-1789), but after struggling for several years, he rewrote the script and moved the action to 1950s Italy. However, the film conveys Cleland's book more accurately than many other adaptations.