| Il volpone | |
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| Directed by | Maurizio Ponzi |
| Written by | Maurizio Ponzi Ottavio Jemma Piero De Bernardi Leo Benvenuti |
| Story by | Ben Jonson |
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| Cinematography | Sandro D'Eva |
| Music by | Fabio Liberatori |
| Distributed by | CDI [1] |
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| Language | Italian |
Il volpone is a 1988 Italian comedy film directed in by Maurizio Ponzi, inspired by Ben Jonson's comedy with the same name. The film stars Enrico Montesano, Enrico Maria Salerno and Paolo Villaggio. [2]
Set in the Ligurian Riviera during the 1980s, it features Paolo Villaggio as Ugo Maria Volpone, a rich but apparently ill ship company owner. He is surrounded by a series of relatives and friends (played by Enrico Maria Salerno, Renzo Montagnani, Alessandro Haber) who blandish him in order to inherit his estate. The shrewd Volpone, in return, organizes a hoax against them to betray their greed. In the movie, he is joined by a new waiter, Bartolomeo Mosca (Enrico Montesano), who quickly shows himself to be as cunning as Volpone in arranging humiliations.
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