''The Thursday'' ( it, Il giovedì) is a 1963 Italian
comedy film
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directed by
Dino Risi
Dino Risi (23 December 1916 – 7 June 2008) was an Italian film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of ''commedia all'italiana''.
Biography
Risi was born in Milan. He had an ol ...
. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the
67th Venice International Film Festival
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Cast
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Walter Chiari
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Biography
Walter Annicchiarico was born in Verona, Italy on 8 March 1924 to a family originally ...
as Dino Versini
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Michèle Mercier
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as Elsa
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Roberto Ciccolini as Robertino
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Umberto D'Orsi
Umberto D'Orsi (30 July 1929 – 31 August 1976) was an Italian character actor and comedian.
Born in Trieste, D'Orsi took a degree in law in 1953, but he was already active in theater from 1950, performing in small companies of prose and revu ...
as Rigoni
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Alice Kessler
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as Herself
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Ellen Kessler
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as Herself
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Silvio Bagolini
Silvio Bagolini (4 August 1914 – 26 September 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1936 and 1973.
Life and career
Born in Bologna, Bagolini studied architecture at the Bologna University, without gr ...
as Doctor
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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, ...
as Giulia
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Edy Biagetti
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History
Edy was launched on January 18, 2001 by BitWallet, with fincaning ...
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Olimpia Cavalli
Olimpia Cavalli (30 August 1930 – 29 March 2012) was an Italian actress.
Born in Cadeo, she was mainly active between the late fifties and mid-sixties. After being a star on avanspettacolo alongside Erminio Macario, she made her film debut i ...
as Olimpia
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Consalvo Dell'Arti as Concierge
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Margherita Horowitz
Margherita is an Italian feminine given name. It also is a surname. As a word, in Italian it means " daisy".
Given name
As a name, it may refer to:
*Margherita Aldobrandini (1588–1646), Duchess consort of Parma
* Margherita de' Medici (161 ...
as Kleptomaniac
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Salvo Libassi
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Liliana Maccalè
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(as Siliana Maccalè)
References
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1963 films
1963 comedy films
1960s Italian-language films
Italian black-and-white films
Films directed by Dino Risi
Commedia all'italiana
Films set in Rome
Films shot in Rome
1960s Italian films
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