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Rita the American Girl
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Wikipedia article
'Rita the American Girl' (Italian: 'Rita, la figlia americana') is a 1965 Italian musicarello film directed by Piero Vivarelli with Tot and Rita Pavone.Fehrenbach & Poiger p.159
Plot
Professor Serafino Benvenuti is a master of classical music who has the passion of the orchestra director. However, the young audience of the 60 does not appreciate classical composers like Mozart or Beethoven, and so Serafino is likely to have compromised his image as a director. One day Serafino receives the news that his adopted daughter Rita is about to return to Italy from America, where she is studying. Serafino is very happy, because at least he can teach her the real music. However, Rita is deeply grown and changed: she follows the musical patterns of her time: the rock music and blues. Serafino gets very angry, especially when he discovers that his daughter falls in love with a young man, a member of a band called "The Rockets."
Cast
*Tot as Serafino Benvenuti
*Rita Pavone as Rita D'Angelo
*Fabrizio Capucci as Fabrizio Carli
*Lina Volonghi as Greta Wagner
*Umberto D'Orsi as Orazio
*Veronica as Diana
*Shel Shapiro (credited as David Norman Shapiro)
*Mike Shepstone
*Bobby Posner
*Johnny Charlton
References
Bibliography
* Heide Fehrenbach & Uta G. Poiger. 'Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan'. Berghahn Books, 2000.
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