The peaceful, almost idyllic life of an Italian village is interrupted during the war Read More »
Tag Archives: Luigi Zampa
The Traffic Policeman AKA Il vigile (1960) Luigi Zampa, Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Marisa Merlini
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city Read More »
Secrets of a Nurse AKA Bisturi, la mafia bianca (1973) Luigi Zampa, Gabriele Ferzetti, Senta Berger, Enrico Maria Salerno
The surgeon Daniel Vallotti owns a luxurious private clinic, where patients admitted selling according to financial resources. Read More »
Difficult Years (1948) Luigi Zampa, Massimo Girotti, Umberto Spadaro, Ave Ninchi
Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. Read More »
Angelina (1947) Luigi Zampa, Anna Magnani, Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi
A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people Read More »
Le dolci signore (1968) Luigi Zampa, Ursula Andress, Virna Lisi, Claudine Auger
In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society. Read More »
Una questione d’onore (1966) Luigi Zampa, Ugo Tognazzi, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Bernard Blier
A fierce satire in the pure style of Zampa, this film mocks, exaggerating Read More »
A Girl in Australia (1971) Luigi Zampa, Alberto Sordi, Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone
Early 1970s. Amedeo is a poor Italian immigrant living in Australia for twenty years. Read More »
The City Stands Trial (1952) Luigi Zampa, Amedeo Nazzari, Silvana Pampanini, Paolo Stoppa
Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Read More »
Il medico della mutua / Be Sick… It’s Free (1968) Luigi Zampa, Alberto Sordi, Sara Franchetti, Ida Galli, Comedy
La romana / Woman of Rome (1954) Luigi Zampa, Gina Lollobrigida, Daniel Gélin, Franco Fabrizi, Drama
During the fascist era, Adriana a beautiful young model, becomes a prostitute after a love affair gone wrong. She meets Mino, a partisan who falls in love with her and wants to redeem her.
Read More »
Tigers in Lipstick (1979) Luigi Zampa, Ursula Andress, Laura Antonelli, Sylvia Kristel, Comedy, Erotic
Eight short stories, four lovely actresses. Ursula Andress, Sylvia Kristel, Laura Antonelli and Monica Vitti appear in two stories each. Some stories are better than others, and which ones you like will depend on your individual taste.
Read More »
Campane a martello (1949) Luigi Zampa, Gina Lollobrigida, Yvonne Sanson, Carlo Romano
Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her home island to collect the money from the priest. But after arriving there Agostina learns in shock that the priest has been dead for more than a year and that his eccentric successor mistook the received money for donations and spent all of it on building a new orphanage for war orphans. To make matters even worse, other islanders think that Agostina is now a millionaire and beg her to help them financially.
Read More »