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Directed by | Neri Parenti |
Produced by | Fulvio Lucisano Vittorio Cecchi Gori Rita Rusic |
Written by | Leonardo Benvenuti Piero De Bernardi Paolo Villaggio Neri Parenti Alessandro Bencivenni Domenico Saverni |
Starring | Paolo Villaggio |
Music by | Bruno Zambrini |
Cinematography | Sandro D'Eva |
Edited by | Sergio Montanari |
Distributed by | Cecchi Gori |
Release date |
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Running time | 82 min. |
Language | Italian |
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