This richly symbolic film is really impossible to understand without some knowledge of 20th Century Italian history Read More »
Tag Archives: Totò
The Law Is the Law (1958) Christian-Jaque, Fernandel, Totò, René Génin
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. Read More »
Where Is Freedom? (1954) Roberto Rossellini, Totò, Vera Molnar, Nyta Dover
A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. 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 »
The Monk of Monza (1963) Sergio Corbucci, Totò, Nino Taranto, Erminio Macario
Italy, 1630. The widower Pasquale loses his job as a cobbler. In search of food for his twelve children Read More »
Gli onorevoli (1963) Sergio Corbucci, Totò, Antonio Acqua, Riccardo Billi
Italian coral comedy that chronicles the adventures of several candidates for deputies and senators of some impending elections. Read More »
Signori si nasce (1960) Mario Mattoli, Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Delia Scala, Comedy
Early 1900. The knight Pio degli Ulivi (De Filippo) is a respected ecclesiastical tailor, humble and prudent. Read More »
I ladri / The Thieves (1959) Lucio Fulci, Totò, Giovanna Ralli, Armando Calvo, Comedy
An Italo-American mobster is sent back to Naples from the States. He moves to Italy with all his illegal proceeds, hidden in jam jars. Read More »
Lo smemorato di Collegno (1962) Sergio Corbucci, Totò, Nino Taranto, Erminio Macario, Comedy
The story takes inspiration from a real case (Bruneri/Canella, Italy 1926). A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic. Read More »