Country: Italy
Year: 1960
Duration: 95'
Gerardo is an employee and lives a quiet life with his wife Annalisa. When a confidence man cheats his way into his home, he confesses to the man that he, too, used to be a “colleague.” He then starts to recount all the adventures he had as a cheat and swindler with his “accomplices” Elena and Chinotto, who were involved in many of his disguises. After having avoided capture so many times, this time he runs the risk of getting into trouble because of his own histrionic vein. But is it really so? “Love and Larceny has its roots in the show I tromboni, which I had performed in the theater. It was clear that I had a certain ability in transforming myself and the title had been on the pages of all the newspapers for a year because of the TV program with the same name. So Mario Cecchi Gori decided to exploit it with a series of small, amusing or farcical characterizations based on a funny script by Age and Scarpelli. It was the first time I met Dino Risi: it was a small film on a shoestring budget, but it was full of gags that I think are still very funny today.” (Vittorio Gassman) Proiezione in collaborazione con la Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale
Biography
film director
Dino Risi
Dino Risi (Milan, Italy, 1916 - Rome, Italy, 2008), after receiving his degree in medicine, became involved in film. In 1946, he shot his first short, Barboni, about unemployment in Milan. He moved to Rome and worked with Mario Soldati and Alberto Lattuada until his debut in feature-length films, Vacation with a Gangster. It was just the first of a series of movies which stigmatized the Italy of the reconstruction, the boom and the crisis: from Poor, But Handsome to A Difficult Life, The Easy Life, Opiate ‘67, and all the way to In the Name of the Italian People, Scent of a Woman and The Bishop’s Bedroom. He received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2002 in Venice.
FILMOGRAFIA
Barboni (cm, 1946), Vacanze col gangster (1952), Il segno di Venere (1955), Pane, amore e... (1955), Poveri ma belli (1956), Il vedovo (1959), Il mattatore (1960), Una vita difficile (1961), Il sorpasso (1962), La marcia su Roma (1962), I mostri (1963), Operazione San Gennaro (1966), Il Tigre (1967), Straziami, ma di baci saziami (1968), Vedo nudo (1969), In nome del popolo italiano (1971), Profumo di donna (1974), La stanza del vescovo (1977), Sono fotogenico (1980), Il commissario Lo Gatto (1986), Teresa (1987), Tolgo il disturbo (1991), Giovani e belli (1996), Le ragazze di Miss Italia (tv, 2002).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Dino Risi
soggetto/story
Age & Scarpelli, Sergio Pugliese
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Ettore Scola, Sandro Continenza, Ruggero Maccari
fotografia/cinematography
Massimo Dallamano
montaggio/film editing
Eraldo da Roma
scenografia/production design
Giorgio Giovannini
costumi/costume design
Marisa D’Andrea, Romolo Martino
musica/music
Pippo Barzizza
suono/sound
Umberto Picistrelli, Mario Amari
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Vittorio Gassman (Gerardo Latini), Dorian Gray (Elena), Anna Maria Ferrero (Annalisa), Peppino De Filippo (Chinotto), Mario Carotenuto (Lallo Cortina), Alberto Bonucci (Gloria Patri), Fosco Giachetti (il generale/General Mesci), Luigi Pavese (Adolfo Rebuschini), Fanfulla (sor/Mr Augusto), Linda Sini (la moglie di Chinotto/Chinotto’s Wife)
produttore/producer
Mario Cecchi Gori
produzione/production
Maxima Film, Cei-Incom. S.G.C.
