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Dino Risi
Divided into 19 sketches, the film is a humorous portrayal of the ambiguous characters and questionable situations in which human vices, individual faults and social paradoxes are highlighted to mock and chip away at Italian society in the 1960s.
With : Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Marisa Merlini, Michèle Mercier
Screenplay : Ruggero Maccari, Dino Risi, Agenore Incrocci, Elio Petri, Ettore Scola, Furio Scarpelli
Image : Alfio Contini
Editing : Maurizio Lucidi
Music : Armando Trovajoli
Screenplay : Ruggero Maccari, Dino Risi, Agenore Incrocci, Elio Petri, Ettore Scola, Furio Scarpelli
Image : Alfio Contini
Editing : Maurizio Lucidi
Music : Armando Trovajoli
Production : Mario Cecchi Gori
Distribution: LJC Éditions
Distribution: LJC Éditions
The unassailable chef d'oeuvre of commedie all'Italiana, this cynical and ironic mosaic of Italy following the economic miracle is without doubt one of the most representative films of Dino Risi's cinematographic style. He portrays hypocritical middle-class Italians, and has no compunction in attacking institutions either. Risi, who does not take a specifically moralising standpoint, stated that for him "comedy is cruel. It must mock other people's idiocy and their stupidity. But other people are each and every one of us; comics must not point out one individual while protecting another. Comics feed off human failings, stupidity and poverty".