Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

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Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
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French film poster
Italian Signore e signori buonanotte
Directed by Luigi Comencini
Nanni Loy
Luigi Magni
Mario Monicelli
Ettore Scola
Agenore Incrocci
Furio Scarpelli
Leo Benvenuti
Piero De Bernardi
Ugo Pirro
Ruggero Maccari
Written by Leonardo Benvenuti
Luigi Comencini, Piero De Bernardi, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Luigi Comencini, Mario Monicelli, Nanni Loy, Luigi Magni, Ettore Scola, Ruggero Maccari, Ugo Pirro
Produced by Franco Committeri
Starring Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Paolo Villaggio, Marcello Mastroianni, Senta Berger, Adolfo Celi, Carlo Croccolo
CinematographyClaudio Ragona
Edited byAmedeo Salfa
Music by Lucio Dalla and Antonello Venditti
Release date
  • 28 October 1976 (1976-10-28)
Running time
118 minutes
CountriesItaly
France
LanguageItalian

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (Italian : Signore e signori, buonanotte, French : Mesdames et messieurs bonsoir) is a 1976 French-Italian satirical comedy anthology film. It comprises twelve episodes on themes of corruption in various Italian institutions, each by a different writer and director collectively credited as "Cooperativa 15 Maggio". The episodes are a satire of a typical programming day of an Italian public broadcaster, with a fictional TG3 journalist (Marcello Mastroianni) interviewing a number of the other characters. The film stars Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Nino Manfredi, Paolo Villaggio, Marcello Mastroianni, Senta Berger, Adolfo Celi, and Felice Andreasi. [1]

Contents

Cast

Plot

The film focuses on various depictions of low corrupt society within Italy in the 1970s. The journalist Paolo T. Fiume (Marcello Mastroianni) is a recurring character between various episodes within the film, in which he interviews a number of different characters. [2]

Episodes

The anthology film comprises twelve episodes:

Production

The filmmakers initially credited their work to "Cooperative 15 Maggio" to protect the individual writers, directors and producers from retaliation. [3]

References

  1. Sandra Brennan (2010). "New York Times: Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on 3 February 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2008.
  2. "Signore e signori, buonanotte". Cinematografo (in Italian). Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  3. "Signore e signori, buonanotte". Long Take (in Italian). Retrieved 9 May 2022.