Le comiche

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Le comiche
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Directed by Neri Parenti
Written byAlessandro Bencivenni
Leonardo Benvenuti
Piero De Bernardi
Neri Parenti
Domenico Saverni
Produced by Mario Cecchi Gori
Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Starring Renato Pozzetto
Paolo Villaggio
CinematographySandro Tamborra
Roberto Gerardi
Music by Bruno Zambrini
Release date
  • 1990 (1990)
LanguageItalian

Le comiche is a 1990 Italian comedy film written and directed by Neri Parenti and starring Renato Pozzetto and Paolo Villaggio. [1] [2] It had two sequels, Le comiche 2 (1991) and Le nuove comiche (1994). [3]

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Plot

Neri Parenti creates some comic episodes, inserting various gags taken from films of the past: Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. In the silent black and white prologue two railroad workers, Paolo and Renato, are trying to outrun a steam train and jump out of the screen into a movie theatre; in the first episode they are bungling painters who ruin a wedding; in the second the two friends destroy a gas station; in the third episode they are forced to work in the mountain chalet, ruining the holiday for all customers; in the last the two friends are the perfect double of two fierce mafia, who plan to use the "twins" for a suicide mission; in the epilogue Paolo and Renato are chased by characters of all the episodes back into the silent film.

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References

  1. ↑ Mario Serenellini (10 November 1990). "No, non è Fantozzi ma gli somiglia". La Repubblica . Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  2. ↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 2000. ISBN   8877424230.
  3. ↑ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN   8860736269.


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