The Career of a Chambermaid
| The Career of a Chambermaid | |
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| Directed by | Dino Risi |
| Written by | Bernardino Zapponi Ruggero Maccari Dino Risi |
| Produced by | Pio Angeletti |
| Starring | Agostina Belli Vittorio Gassman Ugo Tognazzi |
| Cinematography | Claudio Cirillo |
| Edited by | Alberto Gallitti |
| Music by | Armando Trovajoli |
Release date |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Telefoni bianchi (transl. White Telephones, internationally released as The Career of a Chambermaid) is a 1976 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. For this film Agostina Belli was awarded with a Special David di Donatello for her performance.[1] The title refers to the White Telephone comedies of the 1930s and 1940s.
Synopsis
The film is a comic portrayal of the Italian film industry during the Fascist era in which an ambitious young woman briefly rises to become a film star.
Cast
- Agostina Belli: Marcella Valmarín
- Cochi Ponzoni: Roberto Trevisan
- Maurizio Arena: Luciani
- William Berger: Franz
- Lino Toffolo: Gondrano
- Vittorio Gassman: Franco D’Enza
- Ugo Tognazzi: Adelmo
- Renato Pozzetto: Lt. Bruni
- Dino Baldazzi: Benito Mussolini
- Paolo Baroni: Gabriellino
- Alvaro Vitali: Mario, the son in the brothel
See also
- List of Italian films of 1976
- Telefoni Bianchi (White telephones)
References
Bibliography
- Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.
External links
Categories:
- 1976 films
- Films set in Venice
- Films set in Rome
- Commedia all'italiana
- Films directed by Dino Risi
- Italian comedy films
- Films about fascists
- Films set in the 1930s
- Films set in the 1940s
- Films about filmmaking
- Self-reflexive films
- Films with screenplays by Ruggero Maccari
- Films scored by Armando Trovajoli
- 1976 comedy films
- Cultural depictions of Benito Mussolini
- 1976 Italian-language films
- 1976 Italian films
- Italian-language comedy films
- 1970s Italian comedy film stubs