A Thousand Lire a Month
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| Directed by | Max Neufeld |
| Produced by | Ettore Rosboch |
| Written by | Oreste Biancoli Gherardo Gherardi Luigi Zampa |
| Based on | Screenplay Havi 200 fix (1936) by László Vadnay |
| Starring | Alida Valli Umberto Melnati Osvaldo Valenti |
| Music by | Carlo Innocenzi |
| Cinematography | Ernst Mühlrad |
| Edited by | Giorgio Simonelli |
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Production
company |
Italcine
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| Distributed by | Industrie Cinematografiche Italiane |
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Release dates
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January 1939 |
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Running time
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83 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
A Thousand Lire a Month (Italian: Mille lire al mese) is a 1939 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Alida Valli, Umberto Melnati and Osvaldo Valenti.[1] It is a remake of the 1936 Hungarian film Havi 200 fix. The plot concerns an electronic engineer who goes to Budapest, accompanied by his girlfriend, to work on experiments for a new television system leading to countless mix-ups.
It was shot at the Safa Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti.
Contents
Cast
- Alida Valli as Magda
- Umberto Melnati as Matteo
- Osvaldo Valenti as Gabriele Corodi
- Renato Cialente as Il direttore generale della Radio di Budapest
- Niní Gordini Cervi as Lilli
- Giuseppe Pierozzi as Axel, il capo del personale
- Anna Doré as Lia Loletta
- Amina Pirani Maggi as La madre di Magda
- Maria Polese as La zia di Magda
- Fausto Guerzoni as Leopoldo Almos
- Vasco Creti as Il padrone della farmacia
- Armando Arzalesi
- Aristide Baghetti as Il padrino con il monocolo
- Luigi Erminio D'Olivo as L'ingegnere in attesa di diventare padre
- Carlo Lombardi as Il ministro
- Renato Malavasi as Un tecnico televisivo
- Livia Minelli as Francesca, la cameriera
- Lina Tartara Minora as La padrona della pensione di Almos
- Sergio Pastorini as Il tenore
- Cesare Polacco as Carletto, l'altro padrino
- Adriano Rimoldi as Un impiegato della radio
- Dina Romano as La donna con il mal di denti
- Felice Romano as Un altro tecnico televisivo
- Gennaro Sabatano
- Elettra Terzolo as Caterina, la cameriera
References
- ↑ Nowell-Smith p.119
Bibliography
- Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey & Hay, James & Volpi, Gianni. The Companion to Italian Cinema. Cassell, 1996.
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). A Thousand Lire a Month at IMDb
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