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On a more serious note, a 1970 Italian film, La moglie più bella ( The Most Beautiful Wife ) by Damiano Damiani and starring Ornella Muti, is based on the story of Franca Viola, described above.

However, before the national debate caused by the Viola case, a 1964 satire directed by Pietro Germi, Seduced and Abandoned ( Sedotta e abbandonata ), treated the Sicilian custom as a dark comedy.

The 2009 film Baarìa-la porta del vento shows a consensual fuitina in 20th-century Sicily ( atypically having the couple enclosed in the girl's house ) as the only way the lovers can avoid the girl's arranged marriage to a richer man.