| Fantozzi - Il ritorno | |
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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 |
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Running time | 82 min. |
| Language | Italian |
Fantozzi - Il ritorno ("Fantozzi - The Return") is a 1996 Italian comedy film directed by Neri Parenti. It is the ninth chapter in the Fantozzi film series. [1] [2] [3]
The Cinema of Italy comprises the films made within Italy or by Italian directors. The first Italian director is considered to be Vittorio Calcina, a collaborator of the Lumière Brothers, who filmed Pope Leo XIII in 1896. Since its beginning, Italian cinema has influenced film movements worldwide. As of 2018, Italian films have won 14 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film as well as 12 Palmes d'Or, one Academy Award for Best Picture and many Golden Lions and Golden Bears.
Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement and most often work by exaggerating characteristics for humorous effect. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending. One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies, as slapstick comedy often relies on visual depictions, without requiring sound. When sound films became more prevalent during the 1920s, comedy films took another swing, as laughter could result from burlesque situations but also dialogue.
Neri Parenti is an Italian film director and writer. He is known for comedy films, including the series starring Paolo Villaggio playing the character Ugo Fantozzi, and a later series of cinepanettoni - zany comedy films scheduled for release during the Christmas period.
