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.