Appassionata
Directed by	Gianluigi Calderone
Cinematography	Armando Nannuzzi
Edited by	Nino Baragli
Music by	Piero Piccioni
Release date	1974
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Appassionata (also known as Passionate) is a 1974 Italian erotic drama film. Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife. The film is directed by Gianluigi Calderone and written by Gianluigi Calderone, Alessandro Parenzo and Domenico Rafele

Plot

Emilio is a dentist whose mentally unbalanced wife never goes out, spending much of the day at her piano. Their daughter Eugenia brings home a school friend, Nicola, who is sympathetic towards the mother but also tries quick sex with the father. Perhaps jealous, Eugenia then tries to seduce her father. When the mother eventually has to be placed in a clinic, it is Nicola who puts the grieving Emilio to bed. In the morning, it is Eugenia who gets out of his bed and the two girls put on their uniforms to go off to school.

Cast

• Gabriele Ferzetti as Dr. Emilio Rutelli
• Ornella Muti as Eugenia Rutelli
• Eleonora Giorgi as Nicola
• Valentina Cortese as Elisa Rutelli
• Ninetto Davoli as Butcher's Boy
• Jeanine Martinovic as
• Renata Zamengo as assistant
• Carla Mancini as patient
• Luigi Antonio Guerra [it] as