Signore e signori buonanotte
| Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (Signore e signori buonanotte) |
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Luigi Comencini Nanni Loy Luigi Magni Mario Monicelli Ettore Scola Agenore Incrocci Furio Scarpelli Leo Benvenuti Piero De Bernardi Ugo Pirro Ruggero Maccari |
| Produced by | Franco Committeri |
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Leonardo Benvenuti Luigi Comencini, Piero De Bernardi, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Luigi Comencini, Mario Monicelli, Nanni Loy, Luigi Magni, Ettore Scola, Ruggero Maccari, Ugo Pirro |
| Starring | Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Paolo Villaggio, Marcello Mastroianni, Senta Berger, Adolfo Celi, Carlo Croccolo |
| Music by | Lucio Dalla and Antonello Venditti |
| Cinematography | Claudio Ragona |
| Edited by | Amedeo Salfa |
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118 minutes |
| Country | Italy France |
| Language | Italian |
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (Italian: Signore e signori, buonanotte, French: Mesdames et messieurs bonsoir) is a 1976 French-Italian comedy film starring Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Nino Manfredi, Paolo Villaggio, Marcello Mastroianni, Senta Berger, Adolfo Celi and Felice Andreasi.
The film is in a satirical and grotesque manner, which tells various episodes of low corrupt society of Italy in the 1970s. The journalist Paolo T. Fiume (Marcello Mastroianni) is the thread of the various episodes of the film, as he himself does interviews in various situations to grotesque characters.
The Milanese businessman Gianni Agnelli is kidnapped by terrorists. The man, in order to obtain the amount of the ransom, makes a public announcement on the Italian news, declaring that a percentage will be deduct from the salary of his workers, putting a weak excuse of his great bond "familiar" with his lower employees.
A very young and attractive TV presenter introduces the English class for children, showing parts of the body, with the particulars in respect of English words. Among the parts of the body, there are also the breast and pussy. After the English lesson, she meets a man (Vittorio Gassman), who presents himself as an Italian secret agent. The man is came from the girl for a mission of the Italian Consulate: to kill the African ambassador, who's arrived in Italy for a conference with the themes of peace, brotherhood, and the war on racism. The woman takes revenge by killing the Italian spy after the murder.
In Rome a superintendent (Carlo Croccolo) discovers that the police station, which he presides, is in grave danger because of a hidden bomb. The superintendent calls the army and firemen, making evacuate the entire building. Except for a very senior employee, who for three years has been waiting for retirement. While the boys team are acting inside the barracks defusing the bomb, the leaders of the direction realize that there is a mistake: no bomb is about to explode, because the ticking that caused the alarm comes from an alarm clock. The boss of the police station shall meet in a secret area of Rome with the fire chief. The two are not going to make a fool of in front of the Italian and European stamp, so plan to really blow up in the air the building of the police headquarters. The problem is that the men, having planted the bomb, badly synchronize the clocks, and they end up killed in the explosion.
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