Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?

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Movie
Original title Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1968
length 130 minutes
Rod
Director Ettore Scola
script Age & Scarpelli
Ettore Scola
production Gianni Hecht Lucari
music Armando Trovajoli
camera Claudio Cirillo
cut Franco Arcalli
occupation

Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa? is a 1968 Italian adventure comedy . The original title means "Will our heroes manage to find their friend who has mysteriously disappeared in Africa?" These heroes are played by Alberto Sordi and Bernard Blier , with Nino Manfredi also starring in the film , directed by Ettore Scola . The film was shot in Angola when the country was still a Portuguese colony. This was preceded by several months of explorations by Scola, who experienced "daily incidents of racism, even of warm, natural, accepted racism". In his estimation, it was his first film that was not exclusively a Commedia all'italiana . The satire is about exotic films, the Italian ruling class and the belief in the superiority of whites over blacks. It attacks colonial forms of behavior and addresses the longing of western men for a life closer to nature. The film was successful at the box office in Italy - eighth place among domestic productions in 1968 - but was not shown in cinemas in Germany.

action

The wealthy publisher Di Salvio is sick of social life in Rome. His brother-in-law “Titino” left for Africa three years ago and has not given a sign of life for a year. When the wife of the disappeared goes mad with despair, he takes the opportunity and sets off enthusiastically to Angola to find her husband again. He drags his accountant Palmarini with him, who is reluctant to accompany him. On site, Di Salvio sees the blacks as objects to be seen and takes photos straight away. They hire a Portuguese guide with whom Di Salvio soon falls out and who leaves the two Italians alone in the wilderness.

They take turns staying on guard overnight. The next day they arrive at a place where Titino is said to be employed as a truck driver for the Nocal brewery. They call him out, but the man escapes in his truck and they drive after him. He turns out to be a petty crook who was in conflict with the law and took Titino's found papers to get a job. On a Christian mission they are amazed to learn that Titino is said to have become a preacher who looks after a church further away from here. Unfortunately the crook stole her off-road vehicle. In order not to have to walk to Titino, they ride with a Portuguese couple. Because of a collapsed bridge, the car cannot cross a river. The couple urge locals to stand up as substitute piers and hold the planks. Di Salvio and Palmarini are stunned by this treatment of Africans and prefer to continue on foot. At the place where they expected Titino, a blonde shows them his grave. They decide to return to Italy until they become suspicious and take another look at the grave. It is empty. In the meantime they have got their car back and got a clue about Titino's possible whereabouts. However, they cross the path of a band of rebels who take the vehicle, weapons and even their shoes from them. Thirsty, they then wander around in circles until they are picked up and rescued by the locals. The blacks of this village worship a medicine man. It's titino. He is indifferent to his wife's worries. Soon the rebels appear, whom Titino once cheated out of a lot of money. He gives them a bag of what they think is diamonds and they leave. Fearing that they will come back, he leaves the village with his brother-in-law and Palmarini and board a ship to Italy. But the villagers beg him to stay. With the prospect of a boring life in Europe, he jumps off the ship to join his black men.

criticism

Jean Tulard (2005) spoke of "great fun" in which the unleashed actors Sordi and Blier contributed to the enormous burst of laughter.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ettore Scola in a conversation from 1976 in: Jean A. Gili: Ettore Scola. Une pensée graphique . Isthme éditions, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-35409-015-9 , p. 76
  2. ^ A b Jean Tulard: Nos héros réussiront-ils à retrouver leur ami mystérieusement disparu en Afrique? In: Jean Tulard (Ed.): Guide des films , Volume F – O. Laffont, Paris 2005. ISBN 2-221-10452-8 , p. 2299
  3. ^ Jean A. Gili: La comédie italienne . Henri Veyrier, Paris 1983, ISBN 2-85199-309-7 , p. 133
  4. ↑ Carlo Celli, Marga Cottino-Jones: A new guide to Italian cinema . Palgrave, New York 2007, ISBN 1-4039-7560-4 , p. 177