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Alberto Sordi: Wife
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Synopsis: In this Italian comedy, Amedio (Alberto Sordi) is a telephone lineman who works in remote parts of Australia. Unfortunately, for this shy, homely Italian man, all of Australia is remote. He wants a wife, and arranges for one by mail. The woman he has chosen is Carmela (Claudia Cardinale), a veryRead More
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Alberto Sordi plays Nino Badalamenti , an efficiency manager at a Milan Fiat plant. He's eagerly about to take a 15-day vacation to his hometown in Sicily so his big extended family can finally meet his wife, Marta (Norma Bengell ), and their two daughters. He's almost in his car when's he's called back inside to his boss's office. As it turns out, they're from the same coastal town, and the boss would like Nino to deliver a gift to a friend. He's all too happy to oblige, scrambling out of the office and into his home where he rallies his wife and daughters to get ready. They can't miss the ferry.
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Officious in his white coat, Nino Badalamenti (Alberto Sordi) stands over a line worker at the Milano Fiat factory where he presides as foreman, his instructions crisp, his clipboard at the ready. Efficient and suitably compensated, Nino is proud of himself, and on this particular day, on his way out of town. He’s taking his beautiful blond wife Marta (Norma Bengell) and two young daughters to meet his family in Sicily, and he’s sure that the encounter will go according to plan, like everything else in his life.
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Synopsis: In this comedy/thriller, starring writer/director Alberto Sordi, Pietro (Sordi) and his wife (Anna Longhi) are Romans through-and-through. In their whole lives, they have never traveled far from their beloved city, though once they traveled to Bologna. Somehow, their son, the apple of their eyeRead More
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Alberto Sordi, that icon of Italian cinema, plays Antonio Badalamenti, a Sicilian who makes a nice living managing a Fiat plant in Milan. He returns home to show off his beautiful blond wife (Norma Bengell) and two lovely daughters at a family reunion and ... to pay homage to Don Vincenzo, the local Mafia capo who arranged for the Milan job.
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This romantic situation comedy finds Giovanni (Alberto Sordi) extremely jealous when his wife Raffaella (Monica Vitti) admits her infatuation over their handsome neighbor Valerio (Silvano Tranquilli). Giovanni spies on his wife and recruits their 10-year-old son in an effort to stop his wife's good-neighbor policy. Giovanni's once liberal and progressive outlook changes drastically with his wife's candid revelation. The two eventually consider a temporary separation after a series of incidents which seem to prove their incompatibility. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
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