''Romulus and the Sabines'' (Italian: ''Il ratto delle sabine'') is a 1945 Italian
comedy film directed by
Mario Bonnard and starring
Totò,
Carlo Campanini
Carlo Campanini (5 October 1906 – 20 November 1984), was an Italian actor, singer and comedian. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1939 and 1969.
Life and career
Born in Turin, Campanini attended a technical school and a course of ...
, and
Clelia Matania. It was one of several of Totò's postwar comedies to use elements of
neorealism.
[Brizio-Skov p.115]
The film is based on the German comedy ''
Der Raub der Sabinerinnen'' (1884) by
Franz von Schönthan and
Paul von Schönthan.
Plot summary
Toto is the actor of a penniless theater group: they arrive in a small town to offer their theatrical calendar to the mayor. Meanwhile, a professor: caught but shy, presents to the community his play, "The Rape of the Sabine Women", but the provincial inhabitants hate mortally the theater. The professor is in despair, but Toto willingly accepts the part of the work, just to eat something. At the end, the opera is performed at the theater, but it is a disaster, because the genre is drama, but Toto gullibility makes it a comic farce.
Cast
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Totò as Aristide Tromboni
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Carlo Campanini
Carlo Campanini (5 October 1906 – 20 November 1984), was an Italian actor, singer and comedian. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1939 and 1969.
Life and career
Born in Turin, Campanini attended a technical school and a course of ...
as Maestro Ernesto Molmenti
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Clelia Matania as Rosina
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Laura Gore as Paolina
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Olga Solbelli as Matilde
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Luisa Alliani Luisa ( Italian and Spanish), Luísa ( Portuguese) or Louise (French) is a feminine given name; it is the feminine form of the given name Louis ( Luis), the French form of the Frankish Chlodowig (German Ludwig), from the Germanic elements ''hlo ...
as Ermenegilda
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Lia Corelli as Mariannina
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Fosca Spadaro as La figlia di Tancredi
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Aldo Silvani as Tancredi
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Mario Pisu
Mario Pisu (21 May 1910 – 17 July 1976) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Montecchio Emilia, Pisu was considered to be one of the most elegant performers of the Italian cinema. He began his career on stage and screen in ...
as Alberto Randoni
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Giuseppe Rinaldi as Emilio
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Claudio Ermelli as Germani
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Mario Castellani as Il proprietario del teatro
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Peppino Spadaro as Turiddu, il macchinista
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Aristide Garbini as Bartolomeo
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Ciro Berardi as Il brigadiere dei carabinieri
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Italo Pirani as Il direttore della scuola
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Erminio Spalla as Giovanni, il carrettiere
See also
* ''
The Abduction of the Sabine Women'' (1928)
* ''
The Abduction of the Sabine Women'' (1936)
* ''
The Abduction of the Sabine Women'' (1954)
References
Bibliography
* Flavia Brizio-Skov. ''Popular Italian Cinema: Culture and Politics in a Postwar Society''. I.B.Tauris, 2011.
External links
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1945 films
1945 comedy films
Italian comedy films
1940s Italian-language films
Films directed by Mario Bonnard
Italian films based on plays
Italian remakes of foreign films
Remakes of German films
Films about theatre
Italian black-and-white films
Films with screenplays by Mario Amendola
1940s Italian films
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