''Fathers and Sons'' ( it, Padri e figli and also known as ''A Tailor's Maid'') is a 1957 Italian
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Mario Monicelli.
At the
7th Berlin International Film Festival
The 7th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 21 June to 2 July 1957. The International Federation of Film Critics awarded FIPRESCI Award for the first time this year. The Golden Bear was awarded to the American film ''12 Angry ...
Monicelli won the
Silver Bear for Best Director
The Silver Bear for Best Director (german: Silberner Bär/Bester Regie) is an award presented annually at the Berlin International Film Festival since 1956. It is given for the best achievement in directing and is chosen by the International Jury ...
award.
Plot
In Italy, in the 1950s, the lives of five families intersect. Vincenzo Corallo is a widowed tailor who has no control over his teenager, Marcella, who skips school to go with her boyfriend, Sandro Bacci, older than her, in assize trials. Her son, Carlo, is the master of the family who can't stand his sister's bad manners and wants to put her back on the right track.
At the Bacci, the father, Vittorio, has problems with his eldest son.
In the same building, Guido and Giula Blasi are expecting their first child. Anxious, Guido contacts a nurse, Ines Santarelli, who offers him injections for his pregnant wife.
Ines Santarelli, married to a zookeeper, is the overworked mother of five children. She entrusts one of her sick sons to her sister Rita, happy to welcome him, because she cannot have children with her husband.
Cast
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Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica ( , ; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: ''Sciuscià'' and ''Bicycle Thieves'' (honorary) ...
- Vincenzo Corallo
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Lorella De Luca - Marcella Corallo
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Riccardo Garrone - Carlo Corallo
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Marcello Mastroianni - Cesare
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Fiorella Mari - Rita
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Franco Interlenghi
Franco Interlenghi (29 October 1931 – 10 September 2015) was an Italian actor.
He made his acting debut at 15 in Vittorio De Sica's 1946 Neorealist film ''Sciuscià''. He has worked with great directors such as Alessandro Blasetti in '' Fab ...
- Guido Blasi
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Antonella Lualdi
Antonella Lualdi ( gr, Αντονέλλα Λουάλντι, born Antonietta de Pascale; 6 July 1931) is an Italian actress and singer. She appeared in many Italian and French films in the 1950s and 1960s, notably in Claude Autant-Lara's film '' ...
- Giulia Blasi
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Memmo Carotenuto
Memmo Carotenuto (23 August 1908 – 23 December 1980) was an Italian actor. He appeared in 125 films between 1941 and 1980.
Selected filmography
*'' The Wedding Trip'' (1969)
* ''Assassination in Rome'' (1965)
* '' Male Companion'' (1964 ...
- Amerigo Santarelli
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Marisa Merlini - Ines Santarelli
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Ruggero Marchi
Ruggero (), the Italian equivalent of Roger, may refer to:
* Ruggero I of Sicily (1031–1101) Norman king of Sicily
* Ruggero Berlam (1854–1920), Italian architect
* Ruggero Bonghi (1826–1895), Italian scholar, writer and politician
* Rugge ...
- Vittorio Bacci
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Emma Baron
Emma Baron (19 October 1904 – 7 March 1986https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056228/ Imdb ) was an Italian stage and film actress.
Life and career
Born Emma Bardon in Treviso, after getting an arts degree she began her career on stage in the 1920s, ...
- Missis Bacci
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Gabriele Antonini
Gabriele Antonini (born 16 April 1938, died October 2018) was an Italian film, stage and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Rome, the son of an army general, Antonini was chosen by Mario Monicelli for the role of Sandro in '' Fathers an ...
- Sandro Bacci
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Franco Di Trocchio
Franco may refer to:
Name
* Franco (name)
* Francisco Franco (1892–1975), Spanish general and dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975
* Franco Luambo (1938–1989), Congolese musician, the "Grand Maître"
Prefix
* Franco, a prefix used when ...
- Alvaruccio
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Raffaele Pisu
Raffaele Pisu (24 May 1925 – 31 July 2019) was an Italian actor and comedian.
Life and career
Born in Bologna as Guerrino Pisu into a family of Sardinian origin, Pisu debuted in the drama theater and in 1945 he was one of the founders of th ...
- Vezio Bacci
References
External links
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''Father and Sons''at
Variety Distribution
Variety Distribution is an Italian-based film distribution company.
It distributes Italian films worldwide, produced from the 1930s onward.
History
Variety Distribution (formerly Variety Film and Variety Communications) has been in the film p ...
1957 films
1957 comedy films
Italian comedy films
1950s Italian-language films
Films directed by Mario Monicelli
Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli
Films set in Rome
Films with screenplays by Age & Scarpelli
1950s Italian films
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