Country: Italy, France
Year: 1961
Duration: 102'
Springtime, 1944: Primo Arcovazzi, an ambitious volunteer in the Fascist militia, is promised he will be promoted to the rank of “Federale” and is ordered to capture Professor Bonafé, a well-known anti-Fascist philosopher, and bring him to Rome. Arcovazzi goes to the professor's hometown in Abruzzo and has no difficulty arresting Bonafé, but the trip back to Rome will prove to hide many pitfalls. One of the greatest successes in Salce's career, dominated by a sensational Tognazzi, a sarcastic and ridiculous Fascist, and illuminated by the participation of Sandrelli, in her second role.
Biography
film director
Luciano Salce
(Rome, Italy, 1922-1989) was a prolific interpreter of Italian-style comedies. An actor, director, and screenwriter, he began working as a stage actor in various traveling companies alongside important Italian actors such as Vittorio Gassman and Franca Valeri, and then debuted on the silver screen in 1953 in Uma Pulga na Balança,a Brazilian production. Starting in the 1960s, he made his most famous and successful movies, such as Il federale (The Fascist, 1961) and La voglia matta (Crazy Desire, 1962), which uses comedy to stigmatize the behavior – past and present – of Italians. His name is also linked with one of the most iconic actors in Italian cinema, Ugo Fantozzi, whose misadventures he recounted in the first movie of the saga, Fantozzi - White Collar Blues (1974), and in its sequel, The Second Tragic Fantozzi (1976).
FILMOGRAFIA
1953: Uma pulga na balança (produzione brasiliana); Floradas na serra (produzione brasiliana). 1960: Le pillole di Ercole. 1961: Il federale. 1962: La voglia matta; La cuccagna. 1963: Le ore dell'amore; Le monachine. 1964: La sospirosa (episodio di Alta infedeltà). 1965: Slalom; La moglie bionda (episodio di Oggi, domani, e dopodomani). 1966: El Greco; Fata Sabina (episodio di Le fate); Come imparai ad amare le donne. 1967: Ti ho sposato per allegria. 1968: La pecora nera. 1969: Colpo di stato; Il Prof. Dr. Guido Tersilli primario della clinica Villa Celeste convenzionata con le mutue. 1971: Basta guardarla; Il provinciale. 1972: Il sindacalista. 1973: Io e lui. 1974: Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno. 1975: Fantozzi; L'anatra all'arancia. 1976: Il secondo tragico Fantozzi. 1977: La presidentessa; Il... belpaese. 1978: Professor Kranz tedesco di Germania; Sii buona (episodio di Dove vai in vacanza? ). 1979: Riavanti Marsh. 1980: Rag. Arturo De Fanti, bancario precario. 1982: Vieni avanti cretino.
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Luciano Salce. SCREENPLAY: Luciano Salce, Castellano, Pipolo. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Erico Menczer. FILM EDITING: Roberto Cinquini. SET DESIGN: Alberto Boccianti. MUSIC: Ennio Morricone. CAST: Ugo Tognazzi, Stefania Sandrelli, Georges Wilson, Mireille Granelli, Gianrico Tedeschi, Elsa Vazzoler, Franco Giacobini, Renzo Palmer, Luciano Salce, Gianni Agus, Peppino De Martino, Gino Buzzanca, Leopoldo Valentini, Luciano Bonanni, Ester Carloni, Gianni Solaro. PRODUCTION: D.D.L.
CONTACTS: Cineteca di Bologna cinetecadirezione@cineteca.bologna.it
