The Girl with the Pistol
| The Girl with the Pistol | |
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| Italian | La ragazza con la pistola |
| Directed by | Mario Monicelli |
| Written by | |
| Produced by | Gianni Hecht Lucari |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Carlo Di Palma |
| Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni |
| Music by | Peppino De Luca |
Production company | Documento Film |
| Distributed by | Euro International Films |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
The Girl with the Pistol (Italian: La ragazza con la pistola) is a 1968 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Monica Vitti won the David di Donatello for Best Actress.
The film tackled the themes of bride kidnapping and honour killing, which were still relevant in the Southern Italian culture of the time and normalized to some extent by Italian law, and had then only recently been challenged when Franca Viola publicly refused to marry the man who raped her.