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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1982 - 31 July.8 August

Sections & Films

BOROTALCO

Category: Edition 1982

Synopsis
Sergio Benvenuti finds job as musical agent in an important Italian publisher. This could be his final step before to marry Rossella. But his career does not rise, so he asks Nadia Vandelli, a more experienced agent and a nice girl, to work together just for one day, in order to gain some more experience. They have to meet Manuel Fantoni in his own flat. Nadia is late and Sergio goes on with the meeting. Fantoni isn't what he says he is and Nadia is arriving. Everything starts rolling quickly and quickly till Sergio finds himself in an incredible and funny situation from which it will be hard to escape.

Original Title Borotalco
Italian Title Borotalco
Category Out of competition
Section Review "Youth Problems in Contemporary World"
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 107'
Production Year 1982
Nationality Italy
Directed by Carlo Verdone
Screenplay Enrico Oldoini
Main cast Carlo Verdone, Eleonora Giorgi, Christian De Sica

 regista carlo verdoneCARLO VERDONE

Carlo Verdone is considered by many the heir of Alberto Sordi, expecially when they acted together in Troppo forte and In viaggio con papa', in these films many similarities with Sordi were apparent, the popular language, the romanesco, and the embodiment of Italian middle man in the '80s that Sordi did in the '50s and '60s.
In the last ten years Verdone has shown in his films the anguishes and the neurosis of Italian modern man. He is the brother-in-law of Christian de Sica. His father is an appreciated university Italian professor in cinema history.