Totò cerca casa
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| Directed by |
Mario Monicelli Steno |
| Produced by | Antonio Mambretti |
| Written by |
Age & Scarpelli Mario Monicelli Steno Vittorio Metz |
| Starring | Totò |
| Music by |
Carlo Rustichelli Amedeo Escobar |
| Cinematography | Giuseppe Caracciolo |
| Edited by | Renato Cinquini |
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Running time
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76 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Toto Looks For a House (Italian: Totò cerca casa) is a 1949 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli and Steno. The film is stylistically related to Italian neorealism, though it can be seen as a parody. It was a commercial success, being the second most popular film at the box office that year.
In Italy after the war the problem for every citizen is to find a comfortable place to live. Beniamino Lomacchio (Totò) is one of the many people without a home and, together with his family he's been living in classrooms. He can not live there much longer, though, because school re-opens in September. Beniamino is poor and does not know what to do; he just hopes he'll find a comfortable apartment with a landlord who doesn't ask for too much rent.
One day, however, Beniamino finds a place to move into: a cemetery caretaker's house. Not all the family is convinced it's a great idea. They stay there for a short while, fleeing when they think they see a ghost. After leaving the house, Beniamino finds another job at the studio of an artist. But even here the family Lomacchio will not agree with Beniamino. They then find a large apartment. But they've been cheated; the apartment has already been rented out to another family. Eventually, even after staying in the Colosseum, Beniamino is in a car accident. He's finally found a new home: A psychiatric hospital.
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