''Saturday, Sunday and Friday'', originally titled ''Sabato, domenica e venerdì'', is a 1979 Italian

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directed by

Castellano & Pipolo Castellano & Pipolo is the stage name used by the pair of Italian screenwriters and film directors Franco Castellano (1925–1999) and Giuseppe Moccia (1933–2006). Together, they wrote the screenplays for about seventy films, and directed t ...

Pasquale Festa Campanile Pasquale Festa Campanile (28 July 1927 – 25 February 1986) was an Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist, best known as a prominent exponent of the ''commedia all'italiana'' genre. Life and career Born at Melfi, in the prov ...

and

Sergio Martino Sergio Martino (born 19 July 1938) is an Italian film director and producer, notable for his contributions to the giallo genre. Martino is the brother of the late producer Luciano Martino (who died in 2013). They collaborated frequently in their ...

Plot

The film is divided into three episodes that have as their theme the love and public relations.

I segment

Nicholas La Brocca deals with public relations, but he is also an engineer and must accommodate in Italy a beautiful Japanese female engineer, arrived in the Belpaese to bury the ashes of her grandfather, as the old man wanted in the will before die. Nicola and the Japanese girl fall in love, although Nicola already has a girlfriend.

II segment

The truck driver Mario is convinced from the neighbor Enza to pretend to be married to her. In fact the girl is of Sicilian origin, and for years lives in the city, and knows that the parents want to see her married with children, otherwise they would not approve. So Mario has to bear all weekend the crazy needs of the false Sicilian relatives.

III segment

Ambroise Constantin is a dancing master who has a luxurious dance school. He is a very rich man and he is revered by his young dancers, except for the rebel girl Jacqueline, who wants to marry the gangster Fred. Ambroise must prevent it.

Cast

Sabato (Saturday)

Adriano Celentano Adriano Celentano (; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, showman, and filmmaker. He is dubbed ''Il Molleggiato'' ('the springy one') because of his energetic dancing. Celentano's many albums frequently enjoyed both com ...

: Ambrose Costantin *

Edwige Fenech Edwige Fenech (, ; born 24 December 1948) is a French-Italian actress and film producer. She is mostly known as the star of a series of ''commedia sexy all'italiana'' and ''giallo'' films released predominantly through her 20 year career in the ...

: Eng. Tokimoto *

Michele Placido Michele Placido (; born 19 May 1946) is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He began his career on stage, and first gained mainstream attention through a series of roles in films directed by the likes of Mario Monicelli and Marco Belloc ...

: Mario Salvetti *

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

: Nicola La Brocca *

Milena Vukotic Milena Vukotic (, ; born 23 April 1935) is an Italian actress of film, stage and television and former ballerina. Biography Vukotic was born in Rome, to a Montenegrin comedy playwright father and an Italian pianist/composer mother. As a ch ...

: Clelia Benelli *

Lory Del Santo Loredana "Lory" Del Santo (born 28 September 1958) is an Italian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. Life and career Born in Povegliano Veronese, Del Santo started her career as a (presenter's assistant) in the 1975 edition of Fes ...

: Baby *

Daniele Vargas Daniele Vargas, stage name of Daniele Pitani (20 April 1922 – 26 April 1981) was an Italian film actor. Life and career Born in Imola, a small town in the district of Bologna, after attending high school with Pier Paolo Pasolini, Daniele ...

: Director of La Brocca * Gino Pagnani: "Zaikoto" worker * Salvatore Baccaro: Gustavo *

Nello Pazzafini Giovanni "Nello" Pazzafini (15 May 1933 – 9 January 1996) was an Italian actor who appeared in a very large number of Peplum film genre, Peplum movies, Spaghetti Westerns and Poliziotteschi. Life and career Born in Rome from parents originall ...

: brother of Gustavo (directed by Sergio Martino)

Domenica (Sunday)

Barbara Bouchet Barbara Bouchet (born Bärbel Gutscher; 15 August 1943)
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: Enza Paternò *

: Mario Salvetti *

Manuel Zarzo Manuel López Zarza (; 26 April 1932 – 16 or 17 June 2025), better known as Manuel Zarzo (), was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in more than 200 television and film works over his 7-decade long career. Zarzo made his film debut in ''Day b ...

: Camillo Magnaghi (directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile)

Venerdì (Friday)

: Ambrose Costantin *

Lova Moor Lova Moor (born Marie-Claude Jourdain; 5 March 1946) is a French dancer and singer. Biography Lova Moor was born in La Grève-sur-Mignon, Charente-Maritime. She began her career as a nude dancer. Hired by Alain Bernardin at the Crazy Horse ...

: Jacqueline * Manuel Gallardo: Fred * Salvatore Borgese: scagnozzo del gangster (directed by Castellano & Pipolo)

Release

''Saturday, Sunday and Friday'' was released in Italy on 20 October 1979.

References

External links

* 1979 films 1970s Italian-language films 1979 comedy films Films directed by Sergio Martino Films directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile Films directed by Castellano & Pipolo Films scored by Detto Mariano Italian anthology films Italian comedy films 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Italy-comedy-film-stub