''The Eye of the Needle'' ( it, La smania addosso) is a 1963 Italian
comedy-drama
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...
film directed by
Marcello Andrei.
Cast
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Gérard Blain
Gérard Blain (23 October 1930 – 17 December 2000) was a French actor and film director.
Biography
Blain appeared in sixty films between 1944 and 2000. He also directed nine films between 1971 and 2000. In 1971, he won the Golden Leopard ...
: Totò
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Annette Stroyberg: Rosaria Trizzini
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Nino Castelnuovo
Francesco "Nino" Castelnuovo (28 October 1936 – 6 September 2021) was an Italian actor of film, stage and television, best known for his starring role as Guy Foucher in the French musical film ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' (1964).
Castelnu ...
: Nicola Badalà
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Mariangela Giordano
Mariangela Giordano (2 September 1937 – 16 July 2011) was an Italian film and television actress.
Life and career
Born in Dolcedo, Imperia, Italy as Maria Angela Giordano, the daughter of a journalist, Giordano was elected Miss Liguria in 19 ...
: Carmelina
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Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman (; born Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000), popularly known as , was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors, whose career includes both important productions ...
: Lawyer Mazzarò
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Gino Cervi: Lawyer d'Angelo
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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 ...
:
carabiniere Sanfilippo
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Ernesto Calindri: Don Salvatore
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Umberto Spadaro: Don Luigino Trizzini
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Leopoldo Trieste
Leopoldo Trieste (3 May 1917 – 25 January 2003) was an Italian actor, film director and script writer.
Trieste was born in Reggio Calabria. He worked with directors such as Pietro Germi, Francis Ford Coppola, Giuseppe Tornatore, Mario Bava, ...
: Don Calogero
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Ignazio Balsamo: Don Nenè
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Carla Calò
Carla Calò (21 September 1926 – 29 December 2019) was an Italian actress.
Life and career
Born in Palermo, Calò started her career on stage, notably starring in Luigi Squarzina's ''Il berretto a sonagli'', and also being active in dialecta ...
: Gna' Santa
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Attilio Dottesio: Judge
References
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1963 films
Italian comedy-drama films
1963 comedy-drama films
Films directed by Marcello Andrei
Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli
Commedia all'italiana
Films set in Sicily
Films about rape
1960s Italian films
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