A Neapolitan at Cinecitta: Eduardo De Filippo the Filmmaker (Il Cinema Ritrovato, 2019)
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- DirectorEduardo De FilippoStarsEduardo De FilippoLeda GloriaDelia ScalaA combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis, then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens are Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo), who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto). The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in: a corpse used to conceal contraband; serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time; a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker.
- DirectorEduardo De FilippoStarsTitina De FilippoEduardo De FilippoTamara LeesFilumena, an ex-prostitute and for decades Domenico Soriano's lover, discovers that he intends to get married and so pretends to be on the verge of death in order to get him to marry her instead.
- DirectorYves AllégretClaude Autant-LaraEduardo De FilippoStarsMichèle MorganFrançoise RosayJean DebucourtA French/Italian co-production with two episodes from Italy and five from France covering the seven deadly sins---actually eight as two of the sins are covered in one episode while a new "eighth unknown sin" has an episode of its own. Gerald Philipe is a wry, flip carnival barker who introduces each episode and then narrates the last episode dealing with the "eighth unknown sin" which is the sin of thinking evil where none exists. The first Italian contribution is "Avarice and Anger" concerning a well-to-do real estate agent and his frowzy wife, both uncompromisingly selfish in love and economics; the second Italian entry, "Envy", directed by Roberto Rossellini, from a story by Colette, is a glimpse into the newly-married life of an aging artist and his young wife, whom he treats as a chattel and she, consumed by the envy of his talent, friends and even his cat, tries to do away with the cat; "Pride" is about a couple of down-at-the-heels aristocrats trying to keep up pretenses in the face of utter poverty; "Lust" shows the devastating effects of careless adult behavior on an impressionable child; "Sloth" shows the powers above deciding that life on earth is moving at a too-fast pace and they send an emissary to slow things down, while "Gluttony" is a burlesque piece that the reviewers of the day called in bad taste.
- DirectorEduardo De FilippoStarsPeppino De FilippoTitina De FilippoEduardo De FilippoOreste is known for his deliberation and caution in handling license forms at his office.But when he needs money to send his 3 girls off to Capri to find rich suitors, he is tempted to take bribes to put a license through more quickly.
- DirectorEduardo De FilippoStarsAnna Maria FerreroFrancesco PenzaPietro d'AddioAfter 5 die in crumbling Naples housing run by Northerners, the Southern relatives trek to Milan to sue for damages.
- DirectorEduardo De FilippoStarsRenato RascelErno CrisaUgo D'AlessioA young husband is persuaded to move his new bride into an old palace that is supposedly haunted.But the so called ghost is really the bride's former lover who is stalking her on the premises.
- DirectorEduardo De FilippoStarsMonica VittiVincenzo SalemmeLuca De FilippoTwo impoverished couples invent a stratagem to make a living: beautiful Rita (Monica Vitti) pretends to be a prostitute and upon advance payment takes the customers to her room. When she shows the unfortunate punter the bed still inhabited by the body of her deceased husband--who is actually alive and well--people run away horrified, also thanks to the presence of Agostino (Eduardo De Filippo) and his top hat, which makes everything even more lugubrious.