Sandro Merli

Sandro Merli

Birth : 1931-02-04,

Death : 2001-02-27

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Sandro Merli

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Il generale dorme in piedi
Tenente Cicuta
A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases. Because of his fitful sleep is therefore forced to sleep standing up.
Rugantino
innkeeper
A beautiful girl Rosina lives In Rome. Her husband is strong as a bull and jealous as Shakespeare's Othello. Once the husband of Rosina kills a wealthy aristocrat, who sang the serenade to his wife, and now he is hiding from justice.
Giovannona Long-Thigh
Mons. Alatri
When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner bribes a monsignor to fix the problem. After they discover the judge has a predilection for married women, the owner employs a prostitute to pose as his wife in an attempt to seduce the judge.
Cake in the Sky
This movie is an adaptation of a book by Rodari, a famous Italian poet and writer of children literature. A group of children in the outskirts of Rome bump into a spaceship that landed nearby. Soon the event draws the attention of the media, the military and rich entrepreneurs. The spaceship is pointed as the evil to fight against by the authorities, and nobody trusts the kids, who on the other hand try to preserve the spaceship (which is actually a harmless space-cake). –IMDb
Let's Have a Riot
Social satire in three parts. In the first, a young man causes riots on campus and on television. In the second, a big businessman bullies his subordinate during a business trip to New York. In the third part, the priest demands from the bishop a car, a wife, and a new flock.
Medicine Italian Style
dottor Drufo
Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.
Be Sick… It's Free
Dr. Drufo
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Caprice Italian Style
Porter
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
Non faccio la guerra, faccio l'amore
Sandro
A Matter of Honor
Wachtmeister Vaccaro
The Boom
Dronazzi
Sweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950s rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife's craving for luxury and a "respectable life" so he becomes heavily indebted. In desperation he agrees to sell a precious part of his body for a large sum of money. But just before the crucial operation he panics...
The Reluctant Saint
The Reluctant Saint is based on the life of Saint Joseph of Cupertino who was sent to work at a monastery circa 17th century Italy because his mother believed him too simple for anything else.
The Traffic Policeman
The Motorcyclist in the Road Accident
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
Esterina
capo dell'officina
Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern Italy. She wants to find her luck in the big city, but her dreams turn into disappointing experiences. She falls in love with Gino but he is not interested in her, until she disappears...