City of Women

1980 film by Federico Fellini

City of Women is a 1980 fantasy movie.

Marcello Mastroianni plays Snàporaz.

A man named Snàporaz wakes up during a train ride. He has a brief affair with a woman in the bathroom. But it's cut short when the train stops. The woman gets off. Snàporaz follows her into the woods. He follows her to a Grand Hotel packed with women. He winds up in a conference. But his presence is rejected. He then seeks refuge in an elevator with a woman named Donatella. She offers him her assistance.

Donatella leads Snàporaz into a gym. She forces him to provide roller skates. Snàporaz is yet again insulted by angry women who circle around him in roller skates and practice testicle-kicking on a dummy.

Snàporaz makes his exit down a flight of stairs. He falls down and badly hurts himself. He falls into the domain of a woman tending to the hotel's furnace. The woman tries to rape him. But the rape is stopped by the woman's mother. The mother gives out corporal punishment to the daughter.

Release and reviews

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The movie was released through New Yorker Films in the United States on April 8, 1981. It got very good reviews from critics. But it didn't make much money at the box office.

The movie was rated R18 in New Zealand for sex scenes.


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