''Man of the Year'' ( it, Homo Eroticus, also known as ''Husband, Italian Style'') is a
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
Events
Ja ...
Italian commedia sexy all'italiana
The commedia sexy all'italiana (, lit. "sex comedy Italian style"), also known as commedia scollacciata or commedia erotica all'italiana, is a subgenre of Italian ''commedia all'italiana'' film genre.
Style
''Commedia sexy'' is characterized typ ...
directed by
Marco Vicario
Marco Vicario (20 September 1925 – 10 September 2020) was an Italian film actor, screenwriter, film producer and director. He appeared in 23 films between 1950 and 1958. He also wrote for 13 films, produced 12 and directed a further 11. He ...
. The film was a
blockbuster at the Italian box office.
Plot
Michele Cannaritta (
Lando Buzzanca
Gerlando "Lando" Buzzanca (24 August 1935 – 18 December 2022) was an Italian stage, film, and television actor whose career spanned 65 years.
Life and career
Early years
Born in Palermo the son of a cinema projectionist, at 16 years old Buz ...
) is a Sicilian who moved to
Bergamo
Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...
apparently in search of work. He was actually kicked off the island for his insatiable sexual libido. Hired as a butler and driver by the Lampugnani family, his employer takes him to a doctor (
Bernard Blier), who discovers Michele's physical peculiarity:
triorchidism.
The news spreads like wildfire in the city among the friends and acquaintances of the Lampugnani couple. Michele can thus satisfy his sexual appetite with a series of ladies from the good Bergamo society, not without several problems and to the embarrassment of many.
Tired of the constant gossip and insinuations of her friends, Mrs. Lampugnani fires Michele. The man moves to the home of Carla, one of her friends, but it won't be his last move.
Cast
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Lando Buzzanca
Gerlando "Lando" Buzzanca (24 August 1935 – 18 December 2022) was an Italian stage, film, and television actor whose career spanned 65 years.
Life and career
Early years
Born in Palermo the son of a cinema projectionist, at 16 years old Buz ...
: Michele Cannaritta
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Rossana Podestà: Cocò Lampugnani
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Luciano Salce: Achille Lampugnani
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Adriana Asti: Agnese Trescori
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Princess Ira von Fürstenberg: Moglie di Mezzini
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Bernard Blier: Doctor Mezzini
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Sylva Koscina
Sylva Koscina (; born Silvija Košćina, ; 22 August 1933 – 26 December 1994) was a Yugoslav-born Italian actress, maybe best remembered for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules ( Steve Reeves) in ''Hercules'' (1958) and ''Hercules Unchai ...
: Carla
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Evi Marandi
Evi Marandi, stage name of Eyh Maranih (born 7 August 1941) is a naturalized-Italian actress born in Greece, active from 1959 until 1974.
Life and career
Marandi was born in Athens, the daughter of a banker. After studying acting at Actors Stu ...
: Giusy
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: Cameriera
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Angela Luce: Cameriera
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Femi Benussi
Eufemia "Femi" Benussi (born 4 March 1945) is a Yugoslav-Italian film actress. She appeared in 82 films between 1965 and 1983.
Benussi was born in Rovigno, Italy (now Rovinj, Croatia). She debuted on stage at the ''Teatro del Popolo'' of Rijeka ...
: Ersilia
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Sandro Dori
Sandro Dori (born Alberto Schiappadori; 21 December 1938 – 15 February 2021) was an Italian film, television and voice actor.
References
External links
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1938 births
2021 deaths
Actors from the Province of Mantua
Italian male fil ...
: Ambrogio
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Michele Cimarosa
Michele (), is an Italian male given name, akin to the English male name Michael.
Michele (pronounced ), is also an English female given name that is derived from the French Michèle. It is a variant spelling of the more common (and identically ...
: Tano Fichera
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Simonetta Stefanelli
Simonetta Stefanelli (; born 30 November 1954) is an Italian entrepreneur, fashion designer and retired actress. Internationally, she is best known for her performance as Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone in the 1972 film ''The Godfather'', directed by ...
: daughter of Tano
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Paola Tedesco
Paola Tedesco (born 28 March 1952) is an Italian actress, voice actress and singer.
Biography
Born in Rome, the daughter of voice actor and tenor Sergio Tedesco and the younger sister of film producer Maurizio Tedesco, Paola Tedesco made her fil ...
: friend of Cocò
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Greta Vajant
Greta Vaillant (born Josette Vaillant In Rennes, Brittany, France; 1 January 1942 – 7 April 2000) was a French actress and author. She was sometimes credited as Greta Vayan and Gretta Vaillont.
Vaillant made her film debut in 1968, as main actr ...
: friend of Cocò
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Pia Giancaro
Pia Giancaro (born 12 March 1950) is an Italian former actress and television personality.
Life and career
Born Maria Pia Gianporcaro in Palermo, the daughter of a Sicilian railroad worker and a Slavic mother, Giancaro in 1968 won the Miss Sic ...
: friend of Cocò
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Jacques Herlin: Professor Godè
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Piero Chiara
Piero Chiara (March 23, 1913 – December 31, 1986) was an Italian writer.
He was born in Luino, on Lake Maggiore (northern Italy). His father Eugenio was from Resuttano, Sicily; his mother Virginia Maffei was from Comnago, a Piedmontese village ...
: magistrate
References
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1971 films
Commedia sexy all'italiana
1970s sex comedy films
Films directed by Marco Vicario
Films scored by Armando Trovajoli
Adultery in films
Films set in Milan
Films about immigration
1971 comedy films
1970s Italian films
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