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Fantozzi in paradiso
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Wikipedia article
'Fantozzi in Paradiso' ('Fantozzi in Heaven') is the eighth film of "Fantozzi" film series that was released in 1993. In this film, Fantozzi dies. It is followed by 'Fantozzi - Il ritorno' (1996).
Plot
Ugo Fantozzi, Filini, Fonelli, Calboni and Miss Silvani are no longer the valiant and unfortunate accountants and clerks of their youth, keen on cheating their company by just pretending to work, or to extreme display of servility such as when performing the role of doormat for the boss. Fantozzi is involved in an accident at the cemetery and although feeling well and not suffering any serious consequences from the mishap, is told at a subsequent doctor's checkup that he only has a week left to live.
His first reaction is to finally go for every risky activity, adventure and adrenaline rush, that he had refrained from during all his life. This however doesn't last long, and Fantozzi falls into deep depression, compounded by having been squatted away from his family house by the now adult daughter Mariangela and her husband, the gorilla Bongo. The protagonist's wife Pina takes pity of him, and makes arrangements behind his back to grant him a last love episode with his ex-colleague Miss Silvani. The woman accepts to simulate final capitulation to his courtship, after refusing it with disgust for years, in return for money to pay off her debts.
Pina stages a fake quarrel with Fantozzi, to kick him out of their makeshift home within a garage, and the paid-for love escape to Cortina d'Ampezzo can start. Initially Fantozzi is so overwhelmed that he cannot perform in bed. The hotel barman however offers him a strange concoction of powerful aphrodisiacs and spices, leading to a night of over-the-top, mountain-shaking sex that surprises and overcomes all reticence in Miss Silvani, finally in love. Having at last regained self-confidence, Fantozzi is about to send his wife Pina an insulting divorce letter, when he finds out by chance that it was only thanks to her care and sacrifice that Miss Silvani had finally capitulated. Returning home to her in Rome, Fantozzi gets busy in devoting his last hours to exaggerated acts of penitence and contrition. He is in the middle of climbing stairs to a church on his knees, when Pina reaches him with sudden good news: the doctor has figured out the wrong diagnosis, which wasn't for him but for the priest also involved at the cemetery accident and now the leading the same penitence act.
Fantozzi exults euphorically, but does not notice in his enthusiasm an approaching truck, which runs him over and kills him gruesomely. The movie ends with a depiction of his first moments in the afterlife.
Cast
*Paolo Villaggio as Ugo Fantozzi
*Milena Vukotic as Pina Fantozzi
*Gigi Reder as Filini
*Anna Mazzamauro as Miss Silvani
References
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