The Harem

A woman ties three men to herself at the same time. She plays with the desire and the male pride of all three. As the game goes on, the men start competing among themselves. The film builds this not as a realistic story of relationships but as an allegory. Marco Ferreri keeps the account between black comedy and the surreal. How men see themselves is the real subject. The account neither condemns the woman nor exalts her; it makes her the one who set the game up. The hundred minutes pass among these four. Carroll Baker, Gastone Moschin and Renato Salvatori appear in Marco Ferreri’s film, a coproduction of France, Germany and Italy, completed in 1967.