''Ecco noi per esempio'' ("here's us, for example") is a 1977 Italian
comedy film
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directed by
Sergio Corbucci
Sergio Corbucci (; 6 December 1926 – 1 December 1990) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed both very violent Spaghetti Westerns and bloodless Bud Spencer and Terence Hill action comedies.
He is the older bro ...
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It was the first movie starring the comedian-star duo composed of
Adriano Celentano
Adriano Celentano (; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian musician, singer, composer, actor, and filmmaker. He is dubbed "''il Molleggiato''" (the springy one) because of his dancing.
Celentano's many albums frequently enjoyed both commercial and ...
and
Renato Pozzetto
Renato Pozzetto (born 14 July 1940) is an Italian actor, director, comedian, and singer.
Biography
Pozzetto was born into a working-class family from Milan and grew up in the town of Gemonio (in the Province of Varese). After graduation, he made ...
. It is mostly set in
Milan
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Cast
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Adriano Celentano
Adriano Celentano (; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian musician, singer, composer, actor, and filmmaker. He is dubbed "''il Molleggiato''" (the springy one) because of his dancing.
Celentano's many albums frequently enjoyed both commercial and ...
: Antonmatteo Colombo aka Click
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Renato Pozzetto
Renato Pozzetto (born 14 July 1940) is an Italian actor, director, comedian, and singer.
Biography
Pozzetto was born into a working-class family from Milan and grew up in the town of Gemonio (in the Province of Varese). After graduation, he made ...
: Palmambrogio Guanziroli
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Barbara Bach
Barbara Bach, Lady Starkey (born Barbara Goldbach in 1947) is an American actress and model. She played the Bond girl Anya Amasova in ''The Spy Who Loved Me''. She is married to former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.
Early life
Bach is a nat ...
: Ludovica
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Giuliana Calandra
Giuliana Calandra (10 February 1936 – 25 November 2018) was an Italian film, television and stage actress, journalist and television hostess.
Life and career
Born in Moncalieri, Giuliana Calandra debuted in 1963 Pier Paolo Pasolini's ''La ric ...
Beatrice
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Capucine
Capucine (, born Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre , 6 January 1928 – 17 March 1990) was a French fashion model and actress known for her comedic roles in ''The Pink Panther'' (1963) and ''What's New Pussycat?'' (1965). She appeared in 36 film ...
: Mariarosa Colombo, former wife of Click
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Antonio Casagrande
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: Commissioner of Police
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Felice Andreasi
Felice Andreasi (8 January 1928, in Turin – 25 December 2005, in Cortazzone) was an Italian film, television, and stage actor. He appeared in over 50 films in Italy between 1972 and 2005.
Biography
He was considered one of the leading stage ...
: the publisher
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Georges Wilson
Georges Wilson (16 October 1921 – 3 February 2010) was a French film and television actor. He was the father of French actor Lambert Wilson.
Biography
Wilson was born in Champigny-sur-Marne, Seine (now Val-de-Marne) as the illegitimate s ...
: Melano Melani
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Elio Crovetto
Elio Crovetto (6 December 1926 – 8 November 2000) was an Italian actor, comedian and television personality.
Life and career
Born in Milan, Crovetto graduated at the istituto tecnico in Genoa, then he started an intense acting career on st ...
: the newsagent
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Franca Marzi
Franca Marzi (18 August 1926 – 6 March 1989) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 80 films between 1943 and 1977.
Life and career
Born in Rome as Francesca Marsi, after working in the revue, Marzi made her film debut in her early ...
: Carmen, the landlady
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Imma Piro
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: Vincenzina, girlfriend of Click
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Sal Borgese
Sal Borgese (born 5 March 1937, in Rome) is an Italian film actor. He is sometimes credited as Salvatore Borghese or Mark Trevor. He is noted for extensive work in the Italian film industry from the 1960s to present day, and for his work as a st ...
horse thief
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Ugo Bologna
Ugo Bologna (11 September 1917 – 29 January 1998) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Milan, the son of a municipal employee and a housewife, in 1936 Bologna started working as a primary school teacher, and in 1939 he atte ...
: Gianni
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Walter Valdi
Walter Valdi (stage name of Walter Pinnetti; 20 August 1930 – 13 October 2003) was an Italian singer, songwriter, author and actor of several songs and theatrical pieces in Milanese Dialect.
He was born in Cavenago Brianza and died in Milan
...
: friend of Click
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Carmen Russo
''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Op ...
: dancer at the disco
References
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1977 films
Italian comedy films
1977 comedy films
Films directed by Sergio Corbucci
Films set in Milan
1970s Italian films
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