Totò and the women
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Totò and the women |
| Original title | Totò e le donne |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1952 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Shorthand Mario Monicelli |
| script |
Age & Scarpelli Shorthand Mario Monicelli |
| production |
Dino De Laurentiis Carlo Ponti |
| music | Carlo Rustichelli |
| camera | Tonino Delli Colli |
| cut | Gisa Radicchi Levi |
| occupation | |
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Totò and the Women ( Totò e le donne ) is an Italian comedy film starring the Neapolitan comedian Totò from 1952. It satirically exaggerated the relationships between the sexes on the grain. Totò always turns to the audience and explains why women are a man's worst plague. In episodic flashbacks he tells how his wife and other women in different relatives, occupations and other circumstances are kujon, enslaved and gagged. Directed by Steno , the opening credits also include Mario Monicelli as co-director. In his homeland, the film was the tenth most-attended Italian productions of its year.
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Filippo is not allowed to throw ashes on the floor while smoking or read in bed. That's why he sneaks into the attic at night, where he reads crime novels that stimulate his murder fantasies and worships Landru like a saint. As a textile seller, he suffers from the whims of a customer. A year ago his wife Giovanna and daughter Mirella put him in bed allegedly ill with the intention of having Dottor Desideri come for an examination. Mirella thinks the doctor is a good match, throws herself at him and becomes his fiancée.
Filippo had once married another woman, Antonietta, but the marriage was never consummated because the woman got into a beauty choice on the day of the wedding and was soon discovered as a film star. Since he couldn't get a move on with her, he went with a prostitute one evening. The stupid maid Carolina drives him to the edge of insanity, unable to deliver a telephone notification. Back at night in the attic, Filippo catches the dottore, who has agreed to meet Mirella there for a shepherd's hour. However, in a confidential conversation among men, the suitor admits that Mirellas are often tired of him. She always keeps him waiting and expects expensive gifts. Next Filippo tells of a married lover during the war. Her extreme caution for her husband made a carefree get-together impossible; in order to preserve the appearance of their marital loyalty, Filippo had to get on a departing train that took him to the German prisoner of war camp "Mathausalem". Another story concerns an evening when the entire female appendix went into the summer retreat and left him behind as a straw widower. He went to a nightclub and had an animation lady come to his table. But the joy girl turns out to be a funeral home and troubles him with the misery of her family. When the wife comes to the attic, Filippo bursts out. He accuses her of all his sufferings, whereupon they both admit numerous deceptions that they have committed during twenty years of marriage: He that he had a cup of coffee with friends, she that she served him only horse meat instead of beef and blended the wine. She moves in with her mother. They don't see each other again until Mirella's wedding. He gives her a precious bracelet, which she reconciles with him. Filippo winks at the audience, in the end the women always win.
Web links
- Toto and the women in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film . Volume II Tutti i film italiani dal 1945 al 1959 . Gremese Editore, Rome 2007, ISBN 978-88-8440-450-3 , p. 438
- ↑ Carlo Celli, Marga Cottino-Jones: A new guide to Italian cinema . Palgrave, New York 2007, ISBN 1-403-97560-4 , p. 173