L'imbranato

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L'imbranato
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Directed by Pier Francesco Pingitore
Written byMario Castellacci
Pier Francesco Pingitore
Produced by Fulvio Lucisano
Starring Pippo Franco
Laura Troschel
CinematographyCarlo Carlini
Edited by Antonio Siciliano
Music by Alessandro Alessandroni
Release date
  • 1979 (1979)
LanguageItalian

L'imbranato (The bumbling man) is a 1979 Italian comedy film written and directed by Pier Francesco Pingitore. [1] [2]

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Plot

Pippo Sperandio is an employee of an Italian electronics company in direct contact with his boss, the pleasure-seeker Dr. Maramotti, who never misses an opportunity to have relationships with different types of women including Laura, his secretary. However, when he needs to be replaced during a holiday in Sardinia he calls and sends Pippo Sperandio to his place who - as Doctor Maramotti - will have to deal with a hectic holiday full of sport and goliardic parties, typical of the tourist villages of those years, which he is not used to.

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References

  1. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN   8876059695.
  2. Marco Giusti (1999). Dizionario dei film italiani stracult. Sperling & Kupfer. ISBN   8820029197.