The Passaguai Family

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The Passaguai Family
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Directed by Aldo Fabrizi
Written byAnton Germano Rossi
Aldo Fabrizi
Mario Amendola
Ruggero Maccari
Produced byAldo Fabrizi
Starring Aldo Fabrizi
Peppino De Filippo
Ave Ninchi
Cinematography Mario Bava
Edited by Mario Bonotti
Music by Carlo Innocenzi
Enrico Simeone
Production
company
Alfa Film
Distributed by Variety Distribution
Release date
  • 20 December 1951 (1951-12-20)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryItaly
Language Italian

The Passaguai Family (Italian: La Famiglia Passaguai) is a 1951 Italian comedy film written, starring and directed by Aldo Fabrizi. It also featured Peppino De Filippo, Ave Ninchi and Giovanna Ralli. [1] It was followed by a sequel The Passaguai Family Gets Rich in 1952. It follows the misadventures of a lower middle-class family and their friends from Rome when they take a day's outing at the seaside.

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It was shot at the Ponti-De Laurentiis Studios in Rome and on location around the city and at the resort of Fiumicino at the mouth of the River Tiber near Ostia. Distributed by the Italian branch of the Rank Organisation it was a major hit, taking domestic box office earnings of 378 million lira. [2]

In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Chiti & Poppi p.148
  2. ↑ Chiti & Poppi p.148
  3. ↑ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 2021-03-11.

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