''Topo Galileo'' (''Galileo Mouse'') is a
1988
File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...
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
Francesco Laudadio
Francesco Laudadio (2 January 1950 – 6 April 2005) was an Italian director, screenwriter and producer.
Life and career
Born in Mola di Bari, graduated in philosophy, Laudadio started his career as a script supervisor and an assistant director ...
. The film was a
box office bomb
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.
Cast
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Beppe Grillo
Giuseppe Piero "Beppe" Grillo (; born 21 July 1948) is an Italian comedian, actor, blogger, and politician.
He has been involved in politics since 2009 as the co-founder (together with Gianroberto Casaleggio) of the Italian Five Star Movement ...
: Giuseppe Galileo
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Jerry Hall
Jerry Faye Hall (born July 2, 1956) is an American model and actress. She began modelling in the 1970s and became one of the most sought after models in the world. She transitioned into acting, appearing in the 1989 film ''Batman''. Hall was th ...
: Dr. 18
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Paolo Bonacelli
Paolo Bonacelli (born 28 February 1937) is an Italian actor.
He is best known for his performance as the Duke de Blangis in Pier Paolo Pasolini's final film, ''Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom'' (1975). He was in '' Midnight Express'' (1978) as t ...
: Professor
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Eros Pagni
Eros Pagni (born 28 August 1939) is an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in La Spezia, at the age of 17, Pagni started attending the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome and then went back to Genoa and played ro ...
: Suicide General
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Athina Cenci
Athina Cenci (born 13 March 1946), is a Greek-born Italian former actress, stand-up comedian and politician.
Life and career
Born in Kos, Greece, Cenci was co-founder and member, together with Francesco Nuti and Alessandro Benvenuti, of the ...
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Dagmar Lassander
Dagmar Lassander (born as Dagmar Regine Hager on 16 June 1943) is a German actress.
The character of Lassander Dagmar in the Italian-influenced 2015 horror film '' We Are Still Here'' is named after her.
Early life and career
She was born in ...
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Claudio Bisio
Claudio Bisio (; born 19 March 1957) is an Italian actor, presenter, voice actor, comedian, and writer.
Early life
Bisio was born in Novi Ligure, Piedmont, and raised in Milan, Lombardy. He attended '' scientific lyceum Luigi Cremona'' of Mil ...
References
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1988 films
Italian comedy films
1988 comedy films
Films directed by Francesco Laudadio
1980s Italian films
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