Totò a colori

Totò a colori
File:Totò a colori.jpg
Directed by	Steno
Produced by	Giovanni Amati Dino De Laurentiis Carlo Ponti
Written by	Steno Age & Scarpelli Totò
Starring	Totò
Music by	Felice Montagnini
Cinematography	Tonino Delli Colli
Edited by	Mario Bonotti
Distributed by	Filmauro Home Video
Release dates	1952
Running time	95 min
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Totò a colori (English: Totò in color) is a 1952 Italian film, and was the first Italian color film shot with the Ferraniacolor system. The film was directed by Steno (Stefano Vanzina) and starred the comic actor Totò (Antonio de Curtis). Totò a colori is widely regarded as Totò's masterpiece. He appears in a chase scene where he hides from his pursuers by disguising himself as a wooden marionette on stage. Once the show is over, his body collapses just like a dead puppet.

Plot

Antonio Scannagatti is a failed musician who seeks fortune of Naples in Italy. No one understands the talent of Anthony, considered by all to be deluded that should do well to work hard if he wants to earn a living. But Antonio does not give up and sends a letter to a company of entrepreneurs important in Milan to be known throughout Italy. Meanwhile, Antonio waiting for a reply from Milan, it combines all the colors, because that undermines the daughter of a corrupt warlord of Naples and ends up accidentally in a circle of homosexual artists...

Cast

• Totò: Antonio Scannagatti
• Virgilio Riento: Tiburzi
• Mario Castellani: Cosimo Trombetta
• Luigi Pavese: Tiscordi
• Franca Valeri: Giulia Sofia
• Galeazzo Benti: Poldo of Roccarasata
• Isa Barzizza: Lady of the sleeping car
• Rosita Pisano: Antonio's sister
• Rocco D'Assunta: Sicilian brother in law
• Carlo Mazzarella: Giulia's fiancee
• Fulvia Franco: Poppy
• Lily Cerasoli: Patrizia
• Anna Vita: Existentialist
• Vittorio Caprioli: Stutterer tenor
• Bruno Corelli: Painter
• Idolo Tancredi: Joe Pellecchia
• Alberto Bonucci: Russian director
• Guglielmo Inglese: Gardener

External links

• Totò a colori at IMDb