La seduzione, internationally released as Seduction, is a 1973 Italian erotic film, directed by Fernando Di Leo and based on the novel Graziella by Ercole Patti.

[1] After many years working as a journalist in France, Giuseppe returns to the empty family home in his native Acireale and looks up his old flame Caterina, now a widow and mother of the teenage Graziella.

Unhappy that she has not won, Graziella gets her friend Rosina to tempt Giuseppe into a beach cabin and then rushes to tell her mother about this new infidelity.

Originally the character of Graziella was planned to be played by Ornella Muti, but she was eventually dropped because considered too attractive for the role.

[2] At the time of its release, the newspapers widely reported the news of a man who died of a heart attack watching the movie.