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Romulus and the Sabines (1945 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Romulus and the Sabines' (Italian: 'Il ratto delle sabine') is a 1945 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Tot, Carlo Campanini, and Clelia Matania. It was one of several of Tot's postwar comedies to use elements of neorealism.Brizio-Skov p.115
The film is based on the German comedy 'Der Raub der Sabinerinnen' (1884) by Franz von Schnthan and Paul von Schnthan.
Plot summary
Toto is the actor of a penniless theater group: they arrive in a small town to offer their theatrical calendar to the mayor. Meanwhile, a professor: caught but shy, presents to the community his play, "The Rape of the Sabine Women", but the provincial inhabitants hate mortally the theater. The professor is in despair, but Toto willingly accepts the part of the work, just to eat something. At the end, the opera is performed at the theater, but it is a disaster, because the genre is drama, but Toto gullibility makes it a comic farce.
Cast
* Tot as Aristide Tromboni
* Carlo Campanini as Maestro Ernesto Molmenti
* Clelia Matania as Rosina
* Laura Gore as Paolina
* Olga Solbelli as Matilde
* Luisa Alliani as Ermenegilda
* Lia Corelli as Mariannina
* Fosca Spadaro as La figlia di Tancredi
* Aldo Silvani as Tancredi
* Mario Pisu as Alberto Randoni
* Giuseppe Rinaldi as Emilio
* Claudio Ermelli as Germani
* Mario Castellani as Il proprietario del teatro
* Peppino Spadaro as Turiddu, il macchinista
* Aristide Garbini as Bartolomeo
* Ciro Berardi as Il brigadiere dei carabinieri
* Italo Pirani as Il direttore della scuola
* Erminio Spalla as Giovanni, il carrettiere
See also
* 'The Abduction of the Sabine Women' (1928)
* 'The Abduction of the Sabine Women' (1936)
* 'The Abduction of the Sabine Women' (1954)
References
Bibliography
* Flavia Brizio-Skov. 'Popular Italian Cinema: Culture and Politics in a Postwar Society'. I.B.Tauris, 2011.
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