

The Belly of an Architect
1987-09-23 · 118 min · ★ 6.8
Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa, to oversee an architectural homage to a personal hero, 18th-century master builder Etienne-Louis Boullée. En route by train, Stourley and Louisa conceive a much-wanted child — but Stourley's obsession with his wife's expanding belly, her perceived infidelity, and his own recurrent bouts of abdominal pain reach epic and dangerous proportions.
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- Directors
- Peter Greenaway
- Production companies
- Callender Company, Mondial, Tangram Film, British Screen, Hemdale Group, SACIS, Film Four International
- Countries
- Italy, United Kingdom
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 2,000,000
Top Cast
Brian DennehyStourley Kracklite
Chloe WebbLouisa Kracklite
Lambert WilsonCaspasian Speckler
Sergio FantoniIo Speckler
Stefania CasiniFlavia Speckler
Vanni CorbelliniFrederico
Alfredo VarelliJulio
Geoffrey CoplestonCaspetti
Francesco CarneluttiPastarri
Marino MaséTrettorio
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