''Vai avanti tu che mi vien da ridere'' (''You go ahead, I'm cracking up with laughter'') is a 1982 Italian crime-comedy film directed by

Giorgio Capitani Giorgio Capitani (29 December 1927 – 25 March 2017) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 40 films between 1954 and 2012. He also wrote for 12 films. He was born in Paris, France. Selected filmography * ''The Flame T ...

Plot

Pasquale Bellachioma is an unsuccessful police detective, always chasing crime scenes with his sidekick officer Cavicchioni, even though the police radio explicitly tells them to stay away. Threatened with transfer to the remote and cold village of S. Vito in

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's mountains, he becomes desperate to score a success to maintain his job. By sneaking into a briefing, he discovers that his colleagues are looking for a

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cross-dresser named Andrea Ritter ("Andrea" being a masculine name in

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), who is the last surviving witness able to identify a killer that is after sheik Abadjan, the head of state of a middle Eastern oil country willing to break with

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and to sell cheap oil to the West, and who will visit

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shortly. Bellachioma is able to track down Andrea, who is obviously a woman rather than a cross-dressing man, but this escapes Bellachioma, who keeps believing she is a man in drag. Bellachioma kidnaps her with the intention to use her as bait to capture the killer and scoring a major success, but doing this he goes rogue and is wanted by the police. With Cavicchioni's help, Bellachioma manages to infiltrate the gala dinner at which sheik Abadjan is being received, and fortuitously manages to save him from the killer's bullet, saving his career in the process. During the course of the movie, Bellachioma feels gradually more attracted to Andrea, feelings he rejects as he believes she is a man in drag; she never corrects him, apparently enjoying the internal conflict she is causing, but eventually confesses him her true gender after they kiss. After Bellachioma saves the foreign head of state, Andrea runs away, as Bellachioma had briefly believed she actually was the killer. Bellachioma catches up with her outside a public bathroom, and delivers a passionate declaration through the door; when she allows him in, she asks him "Are you sure?" while standing in front of a urinal in the final scene.

Cast

Lino Banfi Lino Banfi (born Pasquale Zagaria; 9 July 1936) is an Italian film actor and presenter. He has appeared in more than 100 films since 1960. Biography He was born in the Apulian city of Andria and at the age of three, moved to Canosa di Puglia. Li ...

as Inspector Bellachioma *

Agostina Belli Agostina Belli (born 13 April 1949) is an Italian film actress. She has appeared in more than 50 films since 1968. Life and career Born in Milan as Agostina Maria Magnoni, Belli made her debut in 1968 with a minor part in ''Bandits in Milan'', ...

as Andrea Maria Ritter *

Nando Paone Nando Paone (born 27 November 1956) is an Italian actor. He appeared in more than thirty films since 1977. Selected filmography References External links * 1956 births Living people Italian male film actors {{Italy-film-actor ...

as Cavicchioli *

Pino Colizzi Giuseppe "Pino" Colizzi (born 12 November 1937) is an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Rome, Colizzi started his career on stage and in 1960 he got his first major role, playing the title role in a badly received television ad ...

as Police Commissioner Giannetti *

Gordon Mitchell Gordon Mitchell (born Charles Allen Pendleton; July 29, 1923 – September 20, 2003) was an American actor and bodybuilder who made about 200 B movies. Biography Charles Allen Pendleton was born in Denver, Colorado, and began working out in hi ...

as The Killer *

Chris Avram Chris Avram (born Cristea Avram; August 31, 1931 – January 10, 1989) was a Romanian-Italian film actor. Early life and career Avram was born in Bucharest, into a family of active communists (his father being a member of the Romanian Communist P ...

as Sheik Abadjan

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* 1982 films 1980s crime comedy films Films directed by Giorgio Capitani Italian crime comedy films Films scored by Piero Umiliani Films set in Rome Films shot in Rome 1982 comedy films 1980s Italian films {{comedy-crime-film-stub

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