Self (archive footage)
Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".
Gino
In this entertaining drama, "Carefree Giovanni" (Sergio Castellitto) is the beleaguered last heir to a dukedom closely associated with the great artist Leonardo da Vinci. As the curtain opens, one of Giovanni's ancestors drops dead when he hears that Leonardo has died. Cut to the present, and the last duke in this line, Giovanni, is miserable in a home shared by two older women who browbeat and badger him without mercy. Giovanni's one solace is to go up on the rooftop and gaze out at the world around him as he daydreams. He has a special passion for the lovely Claire (Eleonora Girogi) who lives next door. To show his sincerity, he zooms off paper airplanes in her direction. However, these missiles are made from actual letters written by the great Leonardo himself. Could this man be last link in the lineage that started 400 years earlier?
Masto Titta
Pietro Massone
Dr. Lo Bianco, debt load, flees abroad and the headquarters avviatissimo study gynecological colleague Giovannaldi. These are adept at gaining the trust of high society and, thanks to the relationship established with the wife of a wealthy manufacturer (enough to get her pregnant), she becomes finance, own the cuckolded husband, a luxury clinic. And there will be a prize for Lobianco.
General Galba
Parody of real life events of the Roman emperor Nero.
Monsignore
Leopoldo Lalumera, grandson of a wealthy eighty-four-year-old baron, infuriated during a galactic convention with a prosaic maid, discovers, on the eve of the wedding with his cousin Mariantonia, that he has become impotent.
Romolo Catenacci
История взаимоотношений трех друзей, влюбленных в одну женщину.
Il governatore
1800 год, Италия. Художник Марио Кавародосси спасает от преследователей своего друга, бежавшего из тюрьмы замка Сент-Анжело и тем самым подвергает себя и свою возлюбленную Тоску смертельной опасности. В Тоску страстно влюблен и шеф полиции Скарпиа, установивший слежку за Марио...
Screenplay
A young man unwantedly gets caught up in an international gang war in this humorous crime farce!
Il brigadiere Aldo Panzarani
A young man unwantedly gets caught up in an international gang war in this humorous crime farce!
Dr. Manzoni
A tour guide wins a large sum of money at a casino and a beautiful woman schemes at have it, but love complicates her plans.
Fra' Ugone, padre priore
Count Raimondo and his girlfriend Veronique return to Italy from Switzerland carrying with them a load of contraband cigarettes but, using the pretense of a kidnapping to cheat their supplier, they hide out in the convent run by his uncle Friar Hugh. In the same convent without anyone's knowledge, the bandit Lucky Marciano is also hiding out with a significant quantity of gold ingots stolen from the Swiss Federal Bank.
Piras, Gaviro's Father (segment "2 'Il Lavoro', episode 2")
Несколько смешных и грустных историй из жизни итальянцев.
Sor Gigi
Four comedic episodes follows different taxi drivers.
Bouboule
4 con men take the place of the real musketeers and manage to steal the Queen's necklace but then give it back to her, moved by her tears.
don Amilcare
The day of Chief Constable Saracino begins badly when his new car is stolen. Then, in his office, he meets Alfredo Fiori who believes that his wife and her lover, a veterinary, are trying to murder him.
facchino
Два простака завербовываются в итальянскую армию во время Первой Мировой войны и по чистой случайности умудряются помочь выиграть важное сражение.
Fra' Giocondo
Four petty criminals pretend to be friars escaped from communist Hungary and go and live in a Sicilian convent
Cav. Rossi
Comm. Frioppi
Now in bankruptcy, the industrialist Merletti seeks the help of Mr. Frioppi, a rich ex-fascist with a real mania for ancient castles.
Sultan
По мотивам арабской сказки "Аладдин и волшебная лампа" из цикла "1001 и 1 ночь". Бедный молодой человек находит волшебную лампу и выпускает из неё джина, который даёт своему освободителю три желания.
Fra Manisco
Father Pacifico is a genuine friar with a brisk manner, for this reason he is nicknamed Father Manisco. The religious finds himself grappling with a thorny case, as Don Liborio, a Neapolitan lord, dominates all local events, including the love choices of his young daughter. Father Pacifico manages to restore harmony and order despite a thousand difficulties.
Ragioniere Giuseppe D'Amore
A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.
Canon Rota
A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.
Story
Nicola Carletti is a middle age 50-year old man who return to Italy with his family but he is drafted to go to the mandatory military service in Italy.
Screenplay
Nicola Carletti is a middle age 50-year old man who return to Italy with his family but he is drafted to go to the mandatory military service in Italy.
Sgt. Giovanni Rossi
Nicola Carletti is a middle age 50-year old man who return to Italy with his family but he is drafted to go to the mandatory military service in Italy.
Un contadino
The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the infamous city premises in search of love adventures. With the De Filippo brothers to complete.
Screenplay
Убежденный в том, что налоги слишком высоки, владелец магазина тканей Торкато Пеццелла, хотел бы утаить свои доходы, или, хотя бы, часть их. Хитрец разными способами отвлекает инспектора, проверяющего финансовые дела Торкато, от внимательного чтения бухгалтерских книг. Тем временем, дочь сборщика налогов - Лаура влюбляется в сына торговца - Тино…
Story
Убежденный в том, что налоги слишком высоки, владелец магазина тканей Торкато Пеццелла, хотел бы утаить свои доходы, или, хотя бы, часть их. Хитрец разными способами отвлекает инспектора, проверяющего финансовые дела Торкато, от внимательного чтения бухгалтерских книг. Тем временем, дочь сборщика налогов - Лаура влюбляется в сына торговца - Тино…
Maresciallo Fabio Topponi
Убежденный в том, что налоги слишком высоки, владелец магазина тканей Торкато Пеццелла, хотел бы утаить свои доходы, или, хотя бы, часть их. Хитрец разными способами отвлекает инспектора, проверяющего финансовые дела Торкато, от внимательного чтения бухгалтерских книг. Тем временем, дочь сборщика налогов - Лаура влюбляется в сына торговца - Тино…
Screenplay
Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The parents of the baby, tired of those fights, run away to Milan.
Story
Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The parents of the baby, tired of those fights, run away to Milan.
Cesare Pinelli
Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The parents of the baby, tired of those fights, run away to Milan.
Story
Cesare, from Rome, and Mimì, from Naples, don't agree with their children marriage, so the young couple runs away from their home.
Cesare Pinelli
Cesare, from Rome, and Mimì, from Naples, don't agree with their children marriage, so the young couple runs away from their home.
le vieux camionneur
Giovanni Merino
Don Juan, a widowed teacher, asks to be transferred to the capital to create a painting school and improve his son's future.
Director
Don Juan, a widowed teacher, asks to be transferred to the capital to create a painting school and improve his son's future.
Alessandro Biagi, il suocero di Nardi
While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.
Augusto Guiscardi, padre di Donatella
Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's handbag containing valuables and documents, and decides to return it to her owner, a wealthy American lady, who offers Donatella a job as a secretary as a reward: she has to manage the lady's villa during her absences. There, Donatella casually meets Maurizio, a rich, elegant and well-educated young man, and ends up falling in love.
Brigadiere Pietro Spaziani
This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the anthem for the roman traffic police. 'Guardia'(agent) Alberto Randolfi has a too strong inclination to fine everyone and is dreaming about learning French. 'Brigadiere' (sergeant) Pietro Spaziali is busy looking at his little son Tonino and daughter Maria who is going to marry a boxer. The 'Maresciallo' (Marshal) tries to manage and solve all the troubles they often do.
(voice)
Screenplay
Sunday is the only day off that house maids use to date the young men who cross their paths: doormen, soldiers, sailors, timid virgins and lurid husbands, or even a doctor.
Antonio
Sunday is the only day off that house maids use to date the young men who cross their paths: doormen, soldiers, sailors, timid virgins and lurid husbands, or even a doctor.
Comm. Tassinetti
Roberto Maldi, a young scientist, is trying to find a serum capable of giving courage but he unwittingly invents a serum which transforms any man in a womanizer. His boss scents a good business and wants to produce the serum on industrial basis, but Roberto does not agree.
Cesare Cantelli
A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives.
Screenplay
Giovanni peddles useless pens in the streets of Rome with his sidekick Francesco, but his college-student daughter thinks he is a rich industrialist. She falls in love with a rich guy and when her father tells her the trust about their financial situation she drops her fiance and refuses food. Luckily, the guy's parents give their consent to the marriage anyway.
Story
Giovanni peddles useless pens in the streets of Rome with his sidekick Francesco, but his college-student daughter thinks he is a rich industrialist. She falls in love with a rich guy and when her father tells her the trust about their financial situation she drops her fiance and refuses food. Luckily, the guy's parents give their consent to the marriage anyway.
Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni peddles useless pens in the streets of Rome with his sidekick Francesco, but his college-student daughter thinks he is a rich industrialist. She falls in love with a rich guy and when her father tells her the trust about their financial situation she drops her fiance and refuses food. Luckily, the guy's parents give their consent to the marriage anyway.
A painter gives his daughter a television set for her 18th birthday. On the evening of the party, the family sits in the living room and watches a series of variety shows taken from the sets of theatrical performances and various films recited by the famous Totò,
Screenplay
О водителе трамвая Чезаре, который очень любит свою профессию. Уволенный с работы за незначительный проступок, он как-то ночью приходит в парк и, увидя «свой» трамвай, отправляется на нем в путешествие по городу. Обвинив Чезаре, что он «украл» трамвай, его отдают под суд. Суд оправдывает водителя, и он снова возвращается на работу
Director
О водителе трамвая Чезаре, который очень любит свою профессию. Уволенный с работы за незначительный проступок, он как-то ночью приходит в парк и, увидя «свой» трамвай, отправляется на нем в путешествие по городу. Обвинив Чезаре, что он «украл» трамвай, его отдают под суд. Суд оправдывает водителя, и он снова возвращается на работу
Cesare Mancini
О водителе трамвая Чезаре, который очень любит свою профессию. Уволенный с работы за незначительный проступок, он как-то ночью приходит в парк и, увидя «свой» трамвай, отправляется на нем в путешествие по городу. Обвинив Чезаре, что он «украл» трамвай, его отдают под суд. Суд оправдывает водителя, и он снова возвращается на работу
Se stesso
Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.
Gnauli
When young Dalia is mistakenly admitted to a mental institution, she is declared sane - but by a truly mad person pretending to be a doctor. The real doctor thinks she is insane - how can she escape this madness?
Don Pietro, Priest of Monterotondo (segment "Garibaldina")
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
Dialogue
A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
Screenplay
A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
Director
A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
Il Professore Fabio Gori
A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
Uno spettatore (uncredited)
A clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the jealousy of three women and even by a policeman.
Screenplay
Rocco and his brother Martino are two rich country-estate owners who descend upon the city in search of adventure.
Dottor Ubaldo Mancini
Rocco and his brother Martino are two rich country-estate owners who descend upon the city in search of adventure.
Director
Rocco and his brother Martino are two rich country-estate owners who descend upon the city in search of adventure.
Coletti, padre di Annette
In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.
Pio Fabiani
Группа людей собирается в монастыре иезуитов, чтобы в тишине и одиночестве пройти курс духовного совершенствования. Судьба сводит вместе поставщика церковных свечей, бывшего заключенного, внешне благополучных политика и романиста... Свои проблемы есть у каждого, только для мелкого воришки Дом тишины становится возможностью ускользнуть от полиции. Истории этих людей переплетаются с душевным кризисом священника, усомнившегося в своей миссии духовного наставника.
Augusto
Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
Screenplay
Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others will not. And the fifth poor fellow?
Cesare Baroni
Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others will not. And the fifth poor fellow?
Book peddler (segment "Il carrettino dei libri vecchi")
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Screenplay
The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.
Giuseppe Passaguai
The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.
Director
The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.
Screenplay
To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.
Giuseppe Passaguai
To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.
Director
To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.
Screenplay
When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend a Sunday at the beach of Fiumicino, a series of troubles begins for everyone, in the form of a comic nightmare.
Director
When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend a Sunday at the beach of Fiumicino, a series of troubles begins for everyone, in the form of a comic nightmare.
Giuseppe Passaguai
When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend a Sunday at the beach of Fiumicino, a series of troubles begins for everyone, in the form of a comic nightmare.
Screenplay
Жулик и воришка обманул жадного и наивного американца. Комиссар дает сержанту Боттони, отслужившему уже 30 лет, последний шанс остаться на работе, получить, наконец, повышение и не сесть в тюрьму за то, что он упустил этого самого «жулика и воришку»: сержант должен поймать вора, ему (сержанту) отводится на это три месяца.
Brigadiere Bottoni
Жулик и воришка обманул жадного и наивного американца. Комиссар дает сержанту Боттони, отслужившему уже 30 лет, последний шанс остаться на работе, получить, наконец, повышение и не сесть в тюрьму за то, что он упустил этого самого «жулика и воришку»: сержант должен поймать вора, ему (сержанту) отводится на это три месяца.
Andrea De Angelis
A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance.
Il commendatore Giovanni Marchetti
Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...
Screenplay
Vincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome-to-Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France: Ginette, a widow with a four-year-old daughter. When he's offered a job in Paris he decides to move, but unfortunately his wife and petulant brother-in-law insist on accompanying him to Paris, and he must decide between the two women in his life.
Vincenzo Nardi
Vincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome-to-Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France: Ginette, a widow with a four-year-old daughter. When he's offered a job in Paris he decides to move, but unfortunately his wife and petulant brother-in-law insist on accompanying him to Paris, and he must decide between the two women in his life.
Pietro
An ex-American GI returns to Italy to find some money he stashed before doing a prison term. He discovers his cash is now gone and quickly sets off on a manhunt to find out who stole his buried fortune.
Nicolaio, il Tiranno di Viterbo
Фильм состоит из отдельных эпизодов жизни святого Франциска Ассизского (1182-1226) и его первых последователей. Он начинается с их возвращения из Рима, когда Иннокентий III утвердил устав братства, и заканчивается моментом, когда братья покидают часовню Санта Мария дельи Анджели и отправляются проповедовать.
Screenplay
Трагикомедия, рассказывающая об испытаниях и невзгодах труппы артистов варьете.
Nino Martoni
Трагикомедия, рассказывающая об испытаниях и невзгодах труппы артистов варьете.
M. Carloni (M. Dupont)
Комедия, снятая в быстром темпе, главные действующие лица которой должны успеть собраться к определённому времени в определённом наряде, который сначала надо забрать у портного. На обратном пути они попадают в различные неожиданные ситуации, которые ставят под угрозу срыва их планы.
Producer
A disguised thief talks himself into a countryside class fight immediately after WWII.
The thief
A disguised thief talks himself into a countryside class fight immediately after WWII.
Screenplay
A disguised thief talks himself into a countryside class fight immediately after WWII.
Director
A disguised thief talks himself into a countryside class fight immediately after WWII.
Ezzelino Da Romano
Giuseppe Bordoni
Writer
Director
Giuseppe Mancini, il romano
Second World War . Field 119 in California (USA ) . War is long over , but the Italian Prisoners Still waiting to return home , preparing to celebrate , away from families , another sad Christmas. To dare a little rein to Their longing , they tell Episodes of Their Life . A Roman tells the USA difficult married life . A Neapolitan soldier tells of His lieutenant, a Neapolitan duke penniless . Meanwhile , the camp commander gave : Prisoners and a gramophone , So , Ai stories intertwine songs . Another soldier recalls the parties and the songs of the Sicilian spring , WHILE a Venetian gondolier evokes A HIS love affair . Sometimes , From Radio shabby listening news from abroad and Italy . Finally , one day , comes the ' pending release and All They return home .
Screenplay
Second World War . Field 119 in California (USA ) . War is long over , but the Italian Prisoners Still waiting to return home , preparing to celebrate , away from families , another sad Christmas. To dare a little rein to Their longing , they tell Episodes of Their Life . A Roman tells the USA difficult married life . A Neapolitan soldier tells of His lieutenant, a Neapolitan duke penniless . Meanwhile , the camp commander gave : Prisoners and a gramophone , So , Ai stories intertwine songs . Another soldier recalls the parties and the songs of the Sicilian spring , WHILE a Venetian gondolier evokes A HIS love affair . Sometimes , From Radio shabby listening news from abroad and Italy . Finally , one day , comes the ' pending release and All They return home .
Andrea Rascelli
Giovanni Episcopo
Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when he met Giulio, a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the over-confident man. Giovanni did what he should never have done: he associated himself with the crook. Giulio soon laid hands on Giovanni's money, ruined his career and manhandled him into marrying his own mistress, the beautiful Ginevra. It was of course an unhappy marriage but Giovanni found a little solace when his son Ciro was born. Seven years later though, Wanzer resurfaced...
Screenplay
Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when he met Giulio, a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the over-confident man. Giovanni did what he should never have done: he associated himself with the crook. Giulio soon laid hands on Giovanni's money, ruined his career and manhandled him into marrying his own mistress, the beautiful Ginevra. It was of course an unhappy marriage but Giovanni found a little solace when his son Ciro was born. Seven years later though, Wanzer resurfaced...
Gaetano
The owner of a cosmetics factory has made a contract with Radio Sibilla for the transmission of an evening program in which the products of his company are advertised.
Tigna
Vivere in pace is a 1947 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Luigi Zampa.
Screenplay
Vivere in pace is a 1947 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Luigi Zampa.
Screenplay
During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles.
Story
During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles.
Orazio Belli
During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles.
Don Pietro Pellegrini
Рим в последние месяцы оккупации. Умирающая немецкая армия отчаянно хранит последние свои оплоты и жестоко расправляется с мятежниками. Но в сердце города уже родился свой отряд Сопротивления. Близок конец войны…
Story
Римский извозчик Тото не хочет, чтобы его древнюю работу вытеснили автомобили и чтобы его дочь Наннарелла встречалась с таксистом Роберто. Но именно Роберто его спасает, когда Тото попадает в беду...
Screenplay
Римский извозчик Тото не хочет, чтобы его древнюю работу вытеснили автомобили и чтобы его дочь Наннарелла встречалась с таксистом Роберто. Но именно Роберто его спасает, когда Тото попадает в беду...
Antonio Urbani
Римский извозчик Тото не хочет, чтобы его древнюю работу вытеснили автомобили и чтобы его дочь Наннарелла встречалась с таксистом Роберто. Но именно Роберто его спасает, когда Тото попадает в беду...
Adaptation
Peppino, a fishmonger on Campo de' Fiori, a famous Roman marketplace, works alongside Elide, a greengrocer, who has a soft spot for him, despite the fact they argue all day long... But neither Peppino, nor his friend Aurelio, the barber, are interested in getting married. Until he meets the beautiful Elsa...
Peppino Corradini
Peppino, a fishmonger on Campo de' Fiori, a famous Roman marketplace, works alongside Elide, a greengrocer, who has a soft spot for him, despite the fact they argue all day long... But neither Peppino, nor his friend Aurelio, the barber, are interested in getting married. Until he meets the beautiful Elsa...
Story
A witty tram driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome.
Screenplay
A witty tram driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome.
Cesare Montani
A witty tram driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome.
himself
In a theatre in Rome, Aldo Fabrizi entertains an audience with a series of anti-English anecdotes and jokes based on an unpleasant experience with two British tourists when he was a poor cabman. This small propaganda film by Cines is part of a triptych commissioned by the Fascist government on the eve of its declaration of war with England and was never distributed. It is an extraordinary document because it was Fabrizi’s first screen appearance – although 1942 is the year associated with his debut in Avanti c’è posto… by Mario Bonnard, also produced by Giuseppe Amato for Cines – and was a precursor of his unforgettable cabman role three years later in L’ultima carrozzella (The Last Wagon) by Mario Mattòli, which Fabrizi himself wrote with Federico Fellini.
