The Sensuous Nurse

The Sensuous Nurse

Year: 1975

Runtime: 90 mins

Language: Italian

Director: Nello Rossati

Comedy

Ursula Andress will melt your thermometer. Greedy relatives hire a sensual caregiver to hasten the demise of a wealthy count suffering from a heart condition.

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Location

Italy, Leonida's winery and villa

The story takes place at a secluded Italian winery and the accompanying villa owned by Leonida Bottacin. The estate serves as the center of wealth, family prestige, and a battleground for inheritance disputes. It provides the backdrop for intimate encounters, scheming, and dramatic confrontations among the heirs.

🍇 Winery 🏡 Villa 🇮🇹 Italian setting

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Main Characters – The Sensuous Nurse (1975)

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Leonida Bottacin (Mario Pisu)

An aging winery owner and widower who endures a coma after a heart attack. He embodies pride in a family legacy and slowly regains health, testing his heirs’ motives. His final moments reveal a stubborn resolve and a willingness to safeguard what he built.

🧓 Elder 🏛️ Patriarch 💪 Resilient

Anna (Ursula Andress)

A seductive Swiss nurse hired to attend Leonida, whose professional demeanor masks a calculating strategy. She resists coercion and ultimately helps exposes the heirs’ plot, becoming Leonida’s partner in both life and truth.

💃 Seductress 🧭 Calculating 🤝 Ally

Benito Varotto (Duilio Del Prete)

Leonida’s ambitious nephew-in-law who plots to take over the winery for American buyers. He engages in secret liaisons and schemes with his relatives, driven by greed and the lure of wealth.

💰 Greed 🧩 Schemer 🗝️ Manipulative

Gustavo Scarpa (Daniele Vargas)

Leonida’s nephew who is part of the heirs’ circle. He navigates loyalty and self-interest as the family transfers power and wealth in the face of danger.

🧑‍🦳 Heir 🕵️‍♂️ Observant

Italia Varotto (Marina Confalone)

Leonida’s niece married to Benito; she is entangled in the family’s struggle over the winery, balancing affection, obligation, and the threat of losing the estate.

👩 Heiress 💞 Family ties

Jole Scarpa (Luciana Paluzzi)

Leonida’s niece who shares in the family inheritance drama. She participates in the tense dynamics of the villa, contributing to the blend of desire and power at play.

👩 Relative 🕊️ Complexity

Adone (Stefano Sabelli)

Jole’s son, who harbors a crush on Anna. He is drawn into the conflict, torn between loyalty to his family and his own desires, and ultimately becomes a key witness to the plot.

👦 Young Heir ❤️ Crush 🔎 Curious

Mr. Kitch (Jack Palance)

The American buyer whom Benito hopes to entice with the winery’s sale. He represents the business pressure that heightens the stakes for control of the estate.

💼 Buyer 💰 Ambitious

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Major Themes – The Sensuous Nurse (1975)

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💰 Greed

Greed drives the plot as Benito schemes to take over the winery for American buyers. The heirs press their own agendas to gain wealth, often at Leonida's expense. The estate becomes a field where money, power, and control over the family legacy are fiercely contested.

🕵️‍♀️ Deception

A web of deception unfolds with plans to kill, secret liaisons, and hidden motives. Anna's seduction and the overheard schemes pull Adone into the intrigue. The truth surfaces gradually, forcing the characters to confront their betrayals.

❤️ Love

Romance emerges amid manipulation as Leonida and Anna form a genuine bond. The relationship complicates the heirs’ plans and shifts loyalties toward personal connection. Their romance culminates in a dramatic twist entwined with mortality.

⚖️ Reckoning

The heirs’ plot is exposed, and Leonida asserts control by banishing the schemers from the villa. The confrontation of deceit ties personal resolution to the cost of ambition. Leonida’s death later in the story underscores the high stakes of their actions.

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