''Amici miei – Atto III'' (internationally released as ''My Friends Act III'' and ''All My Friends Part 3'') is a 1985

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comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...

directed by

Nanni Loy Nanni Loy (born Giovanni Loi; 23 October 1925 – 21 August 1995) was an Italian film, theatre and TV director. Specifically, Nanni Loy was Sardinian people, Sardinian, and one of several notable Sardinian film makers, including Franco Solin ...

. It is the third chapter in the ''Amici Miei'' film series, following '' Amici miei'' (1975) and '' Amici miei – Atto II'' (1982). For this film

Gastone Moschin Gastone Moschin (; 8 June 1929 – 4 September 2017) was an Italian stage, television and film actor. Career Born in San Giovanni Lupatoto (Veneto), Moschin graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico and then began ...

was awarded with a

Nastro d'Argento The (plural: ''Nastri d'Argento''; English: Silver Ribbon) is an Italian film award, held since 1946 by the ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani'' (Italian National Union of Film Journalists). Awards are given annually in ...

for best supporting actor.

Plot

The four Tuscan friends now are over sixty years of age and are nearing retirement. Count Mascetti is always the most unfortunate because in addition to end up in a wheelchair has also lost his wife in a road accident. So his friends to not make him suffer the persuade him to move into in a retirement home, where, however Mascetti never ceases to make his jokes to patients and nurses, with his "supercazzola". Soon after that, the architect Melandri and the barkeeper Necchi join him at the retirement home and take part with him in playing pranks to the other elders. In particular, the man targeted by the three, (also to include the surgeon Sassaroli), an old man (played by Bernard Blier) who dreams about his youth, the four friends give him well-served setting up a scene similar to the wastelands of Hell. There is the old man and conducted with a subset of satanic ritual in which Sassaroli plays the priest and a prostitute is very young sacrificial victim, believes young again. In fact, the four friends pranksters and goliardic have painted the hair black man after he fell asleep. The next day the old man feels like reborn and starts to make a lot of exercises dangerous for a man of his age, dying of a heart attack in a short time. Meanwhile, at that time Rambaldo Melandri has fallen in love with an old countess, and so friends to enjoy the mock sending you a video in which the Count Raphael "Lello" Mascetti joined with her in bed. To the astonishment and anger Melandri will discover that the woman was nothing more than a note and vulgar whore. After a little time friends start to get bored and so Sssaroli buy the board for more fun by organizing feasts and orgies night. But the old pensioners no longer have the strength to play as the four friends would like, so Mascetti, Sassaroli, Melandri and Necchi go to the station to try again one of their most successful jokes during their happiest time in the seventies. However, the four realize that the days are gone and changed, and people now understood the kind of joke that they had created in their fantasy world. Only Count Mascetti manages to get the better of the "victims" passengers spray ink on the faces of the chair and then run away with others who happily make their way to another station.

Cast

Ugo Tognazzi Ottavio "Ugo" Tognazzi (23 March 1922 – 27 October 1990) was an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most important faces of Italian comedy together with Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Marcello Mastr ...

as Raffaello "Lello" Mascetti *

as Rambaldo Melandri *

Adolfo Celi Adolfo Celi (; 27 July 1922 – 19 February 1986) was an Italian film actor and director. Born in Curcuraci, Messina, Sicily, Celi appeared in nearly 100 films, specialising in international villains. Although a prominent actor in Italian ...

as Professor Sassaroli *

Renzo Montagnani Renzo Montagnani (11 September 1930 – 22 May 1997) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Montagnani was born in Alessandria, Piedmont, and debuted as theatre actor thanks to the help of Erminio Macario. His first cinema succes ...

as Guido Necchi *

Bernard Blier Bernard Blier (; 11 January 1916 – 29 March 1989) was a French character actor. Life and career Blier was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father, a researcher at the Pasteur Institute, was posted at the time. His rotund featu ...

as Sig. Lenzi *

Franca Tamantini Franca Tamantini (24 August 1931 – 11 August 2014) was an Italian film, television and stage actress. Life and career Born in Rome, since young age Tamantini studied piano, singing and classical dance at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. In 194 ...

as Carmen Necchi * as Cecco, the orderly *

Valeria Sabel Valeria Sabel (7 April 1928 – 18 August 2009) was an Italian actress. She appeared in more than sixty films from 1964 to her death. In '' Godfather III'' she played the role of Sister Vincenza. Selected filmography References Externa ...

as Valeria Migliari *

Enzo Cannavale Vincenzo "Enzo" Cannavale (5 April 1928 – 18 March 2011) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films since 1949, including ''Cinema Paradiso'', which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academ ...

as Cav. Ferrini *

Mario Feliciani Mario Feliciani (12 March 1918 – 11 August 2008) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Life and career Born in Milan, after completing his classical education Feliciani attended the Accademia dei filodrammatici obtaining the diploma. He ...

as General Mastrostefano *

Caterina Boratto Caterina Boratto (15 March 1915 – 14 September 2010) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1936 and 1993. Life and career Born in Turin, Boratto studied at the Musical Lyceum in her hometown with the purpose of bec ...

as Amalia Pecci Bonetti

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Amici miei - Atto III 1985 films Commedia all'italiana Films directed by Nanni Loy Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli Films set in Florence Films shot in Tuscany 1980s Italian-language films 1980s Italian films 1985 comedy films Italian-language comedy films

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