Watch The Career of a Chambermaid (1976) Online

This homage to Italy’s “White Telephone” films (sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around working-class girls) of the 1930s gives Agostina Belli her best role – going from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar. Incidentally, the English title evokes memories of Octave Mirbeau’s ‘scandalous’ novel “Diary Of A Chambermaid” – thrice brought to the screen (in Hollywood in 1946 by Frenchman Jean Renoir, in France in 1964 by Spaniard Luis Bunuel and in 1974, typically as a sexploitationer, by prolific “Euro-Cult” exponent Jess Franco: the latter being the only one I haven’t watched and don’t own in any form). At other points in the narrative, the film also reminded me of A STAR IS BORN (itself filmed several times) and BELLE DE JOUR (1967), Bunuel’s celebrated classy treatment of prostitution… Read More

Watch The Career of a Chambermaid online. Featuring Agostina Belli and Cochi Ponzoni, The Career of a Chambermaid is classified as Comedy and Romance genre movie with an average rating across the web of 5.6. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Italy and was released on 1976. The Career of a Chambermaid was directed by Dino Risi. Read Less