Nino Manfredi gives a wonderfully comic and sensitive performance as Nino, an Italian working as a waiter in Switzerland. Absent three years from his wife and children--for whom he is theoretically raising money to join him in Swiss prosperity--Nino is a little like David Bowie's dispirited alien in The Man Who Fell to Earth, an outsider too reinvented to return to his roots. Lonely, earthy, and clumsy among the polished locals, Nino has a series of Chaplinesque disasters that ultimately cost him his work permit and resident status. Instead of leaving the country, however, he sneaks back in and stays with a reclusive, beautiful woman (Anna Karina) with something of her own to hide. The adventures don't end there: like a modern Candide, Nino moves from one situation to the next,... Learn More
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Nino Manfredi gives a wonderfully comic and sensitive performance as Nino, an Italian working as a waiter in Switzerland. Absent three years from his wife and children--for whom he is theoretically raising money to join him in Swiss prosperity--Nino is a little like David Bowie's dispirited alien in The Man Who Fell to Earth, an outsider too reinvented to return to his roots. Lonely, earthy, and clumsy among the polished locals, Nino has a series of Chaplinesque disasters that ultimately cost him his work permit and resident status. Instead of leaving the country, however, he sneaks back in and stays with a reclusive, beautiful woman (Anna Karina) with something of her own to hide. The adventures don't end there: like a modern Candide, Nino moves from one situation to the next,... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Nino Manfredi - Anna Karina Director(s): Franco Brusati DVD Release Date: Released the 12 February 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Movie about other movies is commmon (Trauffats "la nuit ammericaine" one of the best, other in the absence of ideas directors do remakes), but over directors, politics and social life is rare. This movie is a tribute to great italian directors: De Sica, Rosselini and Fellini. Besides it shows how the social life changes in Italy after wars, since Mussolini times up to the sixties having love as background. I hope all Scola's movies will be in DVD soon, as La Cena and other. More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Nino Manfredi - Vittorio Gassman - Stefania Sandrelli Director(s): Ettore Scola DVD Release Date: Released the 20 January 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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