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Bread and Chocolate
1974 Italian film
Bread and Chocolate (Italian: Pane e cioccolata) is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Franco Brusati. This film chronicles the misadventures of an Italian immigrant to Switzerland and is representative of the commedia all'italiana film genre. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."
Plot
Like many southern Europeans of the period (1960s to early 1970s), Nino Garofalo (Nino Manfredi) is a migrant "guest worker" from Italy, working as a waiter in Switzerland. He loses his work permit when he is caught urinating in public, so he begins to lead a clandestine life in Switzerland.
At first he is supported by Elena, a Greek woman and political refugee. Then he is befriended by an Italian industrialist, relocated to Switzerland because of financial problems. The industrialist takes him under his wing and invests his savings for him, but kills himself after his financial scheme collapses, without having told Nino where he deposited his savings.
Nino is constrained to find shelter with a group of clandestine Neapolitans living in a chicken coop, together with the same chickens they tend to in order to survive.
Intrigued by the sight of a group of blonde Swiss youths bathing in a river, he decides to dye his hair and pass himself off as a local. In a bar, when openly rooting for the Italy national football team during the broadcast of a match, he is found out as a migrant Italian worker, after celebrating a goal scored by Fabio Capello.
He is arrested and brought to a police station. He meets Elena again, who wants to give him a renewed permit but he refuses. He embarks on a train and finds himself in a cabin filled with returning Italian guest workers. Amid the songs of "sun" and "sea", he is seen having second thoughts. 1976 Italian film Basta che non si sappia in giro is a 1976 Italian anthologycomedy film directed by Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Luigi Magni. The film obtained a good commercial success. In a triptych of events (the first directed by Loy, the second by Magni, the third by Comencini) are analyzed situations and incidents that have sexuality as a common denominator. In the first a scriptwriter/director (Johnny Dorelli), during a busy morning's work with a typist (Monica Vitti), feels more and more attracted to her, and this is increasingly identified with the protagonist 's erotic drama that he makes typing . The second segment sees a jailer ( Nino Manfredi ) taken hostage during a prison riot, during which the mutineers threaten to sodomize him if they do not receive the visit of the Minister of Justice. The third, played on the register of the comedy of misunderstanding, sees a single accountant with the hobby of model (still Manfredi) to exchange for the call girl who just "ordered" a shy and awkward phone used (again Vitti) responsible for collecting the rate of an encyclopedia. .
Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano, no. 1643. Photo G.B. Poletto / Titanus. Publicity still for the film Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti(1960, Nanni Loy).
A Hairdresser in Love
Nino Manfredi was born Saturnino Manfrediin Castro dei Volsci, Italy in 1921. He studied law and later took acting lessons at the Accademia d’Arte Drammaticain Rome. He made his stage debut in the theatre company of Vittorio Gassman and Evi Maltagliati. There he played mainly dramatic roles. He made a name for himself in the world of Italian show business as a radio and music hall performer in the World War II years. In 1948 he made his film debut in the short film Tenori per forza/Contents necessarily. In 1949 he played for the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and Rome under Giorgio Strehler, in such tragedies as Romeo and Julietand The Storm. In 1952-1952 he collaborated with Eduardo De Filippo, along with Paolo Panelliand Bice Valori. During the 1950’s, he mainly played small parts in the cinema and also worked as a voice actor. He dubbed the voice of Gérard Philipein Italy. He got a bigger role as a hairdresser in love with his colleague in Gli innamorati/The Lovers(1955, Mauro Bolognini) starring Antonella Lualdiand Franco Interlenghi. The film was presented at Cannes and is still well known. In 1959, Manfredi finally had his first important lead role in the satire L’impiegato/The employee(1959, Gianni Puccini) with Eleonora Rossi Drago, for which he also wrote the scenario.
Eleonora Rossi Drago. French postcard by Editions du Globe, Paris, nr. 624. Photo: Sam Lévin.
Mistaken for an Influential Fascist
In the early 1960’s, Nino Manfredi definitively established himself both on stage and in the Basta che non si sappia in giro
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Macchina d'amore
Il superiore
L'equivoco
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