Released Date:
1954-07-04
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
84 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (190 Reviews)
Director:
Eduardo De FilippoGenres:
ComedyEduardo De Filippo (play)
Eduardo De Filippo (screenplay)
Arduino Maiuri (screenplay)
Piero Tellini (screenplay)
A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens is Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo)who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto.) The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in...a corpse used to conceal contraband...serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time...a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker.
Released Date:
1953-09-06
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
98 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (37 Reviews)
Director:
Eduardo De FilippoGenres:
ComedyEduardo De Filippo
Agenore Incrocci
Furio Scarpelli
Released Date:
1957-02-11
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
138 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (775 Reviews)
Director:
Vittorio De SicaGiuseppe Marotta (story)
Cesare Zavattini (adapted for the screen by)
Cesare Zavattini (screenplay)
Vittorio De Sica (screenplay)
Giuseppe Marotta (screenplay)
Tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Napolitean episodes : a clown exploited by a gangster ; an inconstant pizza seller (Sofia) loosing her husband's ring ; the funeral of a dead child ; the gambler Count Prospero B. defeated by a kid ; the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a prostitute ; the "professor" Ersilio Micci, a "wisdom seller".
Released Date:
1960-10-27
Languages:
Italian, English
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (513 Reviews)
Director:
Luigi ComenciniAgenore Incrocci (story)
Furio Scarpelli (story)
Agenore Incrocci
Furio Scarpelli
Luigi Comencini
Marcello Fondato
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