Adua e le compagne: Piero's house

Piero's house (Mastroianni) can be seen externally (even the interiors seem to have been shot there) in the scene in which Adua (Signoret) goes there at night. It is in Rome in Viale Marco Polo 96, in a building designed in 1952 by M. Ridolfi and W. Frankl. For those who know about architecture and urban planning, it is a building known for its particular shape whose geometric experiments even evoke suggestions of a medieval flavour.

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PLOT:
19 September 1958: at midnight, the Merlin law is passed, and the brothels close forever. The last customers leave and the young ladies organise their own departure. Adua, with Lolita, Marilina, and Caterina decides to open a trattoria on the outskirts of Rome. With 'rooms' upstairs. To obtain a license, they ask for help from a blameless Commendatore who actually wants to become their patron. Between melodrama and denunciation, this is a tough and sympathetic film, supported by four perfect performers, sunny or nocturnal, disenchanted or ditzy, by a screenplay that does not make allowances for men (the villain Claudio Gora, the cowardly Mastroianni), by a lucid photography that gives us a finale of great visual power. On the other hand, Antonio Pietrangeli was an author who knew women well.