The million finger

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title The million finger
Original title Mani di velluto
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1979
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Castellano & Pipolo
script Castellano & Pipolo
production Mario Cecchi Gori
music Nando De Luca
camera Alfio Contini
cut Antonio Siciliano
occupation

The Millions Finger (re-release title), initially released as hands like velvet , the literal translation of the original title Mani di velluto , is an Italian comedy film from 1979. Adriano Celentano received the David di Donatello for best male leading role for his performance .

action

The engineer Guido Quiller produces a safety glass that burglars can no longer fight. As a result, jewelers are no longer willing to pay insurance premiums as before, which worries an insurance company. Guido would like to marry his fiancée Maggie. His separated wife, Petula, is only prepared to consent to the divorce if he writes over the company shares that she plans to sell to the insurance company for 12 billion lire . Although he would lose his entire fortune, Guido decides to accept it.

As soon as Guido has announced his plans to Maggie, she leaves him because she no longer finds him penniless interesting. When he carries her forgotten handbag on a Vespa , he is mistakenly mistaken for a “colleague” by the thief Tilli. She rescues him from a well he fell into and takes the injured man into her home. Her family consists of car dealers , pickpockets and would-be counterfeiters . While she is taking care of him, her brother Momo creates a new identity card for him. Guido falls in love with the woman, but does not reveal himself for who he is. Tilli and her family are angry with Guido Quiller because he made life difficult for them with his invention and her grandfather is imprisoned after trying his hand at such an unbreakable shop window. To get him out of prison, Tilli needs 15 million lire as bail. Guido withdraws the amount at the bank counter, but gives Tilli a robbery in order to impress her. Disguised as journalists from the Famiglia Cristiana , they steal from a Christian Democratic MP. However, Guido reimburses him for the damage. In further coups they exclude air passengers and opera goers. At the announcement of the engagement of Guido and Tilli, a man objects to whom she had been promised since childhood . Guido wins the race to decide. In order to "steal" an engagement ring for her, they break into a villa together, which he claims to know that a ring can be obtained there - it is his own villa where he has deposited the ring. When the police surprised her, Tilli finally found out that her fiancé was really Guido Quiller and ran away angrily. But soon he takes her to a meeting with Petula and lawyers, where he surrenders his shares and gets the divorce. Tilli takes off the money from Petula and takes off with Guido.

Reviews

The Fischer Film Almanac explained the flick's enormous box office success in Italy by carefully avoiding any confrontation with reality. He is one of the better works of the comedian because he "takes a pleasant step back here and does not grimace." Similarly, it was said in the 1984 film yearbook that not Celentano, but that his teammates are the authors of too much stupidity; the main actor can bring in many of his skills here. The comedy is “quite lively”, with “nice, surprising ideas” and a lot to “laugh or smile” without falling below a certain level. The Lexicon of International Films also saw the strengths of the film in Celentano and its "generally respectable jokes", not in the "mediocre" staging.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fischer Film Almanach 1983. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-596-23684-3 , p. 84
  2. ^ Lothar R. Just (Ed.): Das Filmjahr 1984. Filmland Presse, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-88690-024-X , p. 120
  3. ^ Lexicon of International Films . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1995. ISBN 3-499-16357-8 , Volume L – N, p. 3848