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Tag Archives: Giorgio Bianchi
Love, the Italian Way AKA Femmine di lusso (1960) Giorgio Bianchi, Belinda Lee, Walter Chiari, Ugo Tognazzi
A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner Read More »
The Moralist AKA Il moralista (1959) Giorgio Bianchi, Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Franco Fabrizi
Augustino works as the General Secretary of Social Morality Union Read More »
St. John the Baptist Beheaded (1940) Amleto Palermi, Giorgio Bianchi, Totò, Titina De Filippo, Silvana Jachino
Mastr’Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded Read More »
Toto and Peppino Divided in Berlin / Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino (1962) Giorgio Bianchi, Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Nadia Sanders, Comedy
Who but Totò could come up with a send-up of the erection of the Berlin Wall mere months after its completion? Totò and Peppino are hired by some former Nazis to pretend to be Admiral Canarinis and his assistant — wanted war criminals — but the American authorities don’t believe them and deport them to East Berlin. There, they’re captured by the Russians, who do believe them, and demand they reveal the whereabouts of American spy planes. In the always politically charged atmosphere of Italy, the film sparked controversy among Totò’s admirers on both the Left and the Right.
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