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Banned in Italy, this movie tells the story of a teenage virgin who has somehow become pregnant. Mary is an epileptic and the town's witch (many rural Italian regions have women who practice folk-magic and medicine and whom they call witches or stregoni). When she appears to die after a seizure, she is given funeral rites but then recovers and walks home. Three months later, she is discovered to be pregnant. A furor gathers as the local people believe they are witnessing a virgin birth. The village priest is encouraged by his Cardinal to find the father of the baby...or else. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

The funny side of sex provides the basis for this comical Italian anthology that is comrpised of four vignettes. In "The Unkindest Cut" a veterinarian falls in love with a professional pig castrator and asks to marry her. The wedding day arrives and vet's nerve fails him. Now he must watch more than his back for the jilted bride is out for revenge. The second story "Veni, Vidi, Vici" is set before the fall of Rome and postulates that the only reason Nero went mad and burned the city was because he was jealous of his philandering wife who frequently entertained lovers during her luxurious milk baths. The third tale, "Suicides Anonymous" adds a tragic note that begins when the teenage mistress of a prominent Milanese businessman leaves him. The fourth story "The First" tells the weird tale of a young womanizer who finds himself pregnant after a one night stand with a Japanese stripper who refuses to acknowledge that she is the mother of his child. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide