Poppy (Italian: Lo sai che i papaveri) is a 1952 Italian comedy film by Vittorio Metz and Marcello Marchesi and starring Walter Chiari, Anna Maria Ferrero and Carlo Campanini.[1] It was sot at the Ponti-De Laurentis Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alberto Boccianti.
| Poppy | |
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| Directed by | Vittorio Metz Marcello Marchesi |
| Written by | Marcello Marchesi Vittorio Metz |
| Produced by | Mario Silvestri |
| Starring | Walter Chiari Anna Maria Ferrero Carlo Campanini |
| Cinematography | Riccardo Pallottini |
| Edited by | Franco Fraticelli |
| Music by | Vittorio Mascheroni |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Minerva Film |
Release date | 1952 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Synopsis edit
Unknowingly, respectable schoolteacher Gualtiero leads a double life as Walter who frequents nightclubs every night. Whereas Gualtiero is engaged to a fellow teacher Anna, Walter is a carousing womaniser. Pierina, one of his students who has a crush on him, discovers about his nocturnal visits and seeks him out. They enjoy a romance, but by day he remembers nothing about it. Eventually when confronted, he visits a psychiatrist who reveals he has a duel personality with strong contrasting traits inherited from each of his parents.
Cast edit
- Walter Chiari as Gualtiero/Walter
- Anna Maria Ferrero as Pierina Zacchi
- Carlo Campanini as Padre di Pierina
- Luisa Rossi as Anna Butti
- Franca Rame as Silvana
- Raimondo Vianello as lo psicoanalista
- Lauro Gazzolo as il preside
- Juan Carlos Lamas as Lamas
- Galeazzo Benti as Viveur del night
- Dorian Gray as La guardarobiera
- Marcella Rovena as Governanta casa Zacchi
- Belle Tildy as Jeanette D'Aubry
- Maria Pia Trepaoli as Cartomante
- Guglielmo Barnabò as Medico
- Ennio Girolami as Marocchi
- Bruno Smith as Direttore del night 'I tarocchi'
- Guglielmo Inglese as il bidello Elia
- Mario De Simone as Compoagna del scuola
- Franco Pastorino as Rinaldo
- Mimmo Poli as 'Sfilatino'
- Furio Meniconi as Spacciatore di droga
References edit
- ^ Brunetta p.120
Bibliography edit
- Brunetta, Gian Piero. The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century. Princeton University Press, 2009.
External links edit
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