Il mattatore
| Il Mattatore | |
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| Directed by | Dino Risi |
| Produced by | Mario Cecchi Gori |
| Written by |
Ettore Scola Sandro Continenza Ruggero Maccari Sergio Pugliese Age & Scarpelli |
| Starring |
Vittorio Gassman Dorian Gray Peppino De Filippo Anna-Maria Ferrero |
| Music by | Pippo Barzizza |
| Cinematography | Massimo Dallamano |
| Edited by | Eraldo Da Roma |
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Release date
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1959 (Italy) February 1, 1963(US) |
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Running time
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95 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Love and Larceny (in Italian, Il mattatore, "The Showman") is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. It was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival.
Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant. His inexperience means that he is the only one to be arrested and sentenced to several months in prison, where he encounters a vast array of petty criminals, devoted primarily to scams of various kinds. He befriends Chinotto, a con man for whom the doors of the prisons are like "revolving doors of a large hotel."
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