What's Your Sign? (1975 film)
What's Your Sign? | |
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Italian | Di che segno sei? |
Directed by | Sergio Corbucci |
Written by | Mario Amendola Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia, Sergio Corbucci |
Produced by | Franco Cristaldi |
Starring | Alberto Sordi, Mariangela Melato, Adriano Celentano, Alberto Sordi, Paolo Villaggio, Renato Pozzetto, Massimo Boldi |
Edited by | Eugenio Alabiso |
Music by | Lelio Luttazzi |
Distributed by | Vides Cinematografica |
Release date |
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Running time | 127 min |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian language |
What's Your Sign? (Italian: Di che segno sei?) is a 1975 Italian comedy film directed by Sergio Corbucci, starring Alberto Sordi.
Plot
[edit]The film is divided into four episodes. In the first Paolo Villaggio plays the role of a sailor from Genoa who learns from his doctor that he will soon become a woman. He begins to make plans and to daydream of what it will be like to be a woman. In the second episode Adriano Celentano is a former dancer in Emilia Romagna who now trains a woman for boxing fights. When he meets a beautiful Emilian girl who is enrolling in a dance competition where a large sum of money will be awarded to the winners, Adriano does not miss the opportunity. He first tries to kill the boxer woman he works with, called "King Kong" and then leaves to go dancing with the girl, winning one turn after another. But as the couple wins the first prize Adriano is arrested by the police. In the third episode Renato Pozzetto plays the role of a poor mason from Milan who bets with some friends that he will be able to seduce the wife of his boss. Renato will succeed but will pay the consequences. In the last episode Alberto Sordi plays the role of hick Roman Nando Moriconi (same character of the film Un americano a Roma by Steno - 1954), this time he works as a body guard of a prominent Italian financier who has been the victim of many attempts to kidnap him .
Cast
[edit]- Alberto Sordi as Nando Moriconi
- Paolo Villaggio as Dante Bompazzi
- Renato Pozzetto as Basilio
- Adriano Celentano as Alfredo, a.k.a. 'Fred Astaire'
- Giovanna Ralli as contessa Cristina
- Mariangela Melato as Marietta, a.k.a. 'Claquette'
- Luciano Salce as Conte Leonardo
- Giuliana Calandra as Maria Bompazzi
- Jack La Cayenne as Enea Giacomazzi, a.k.a. 'Bolero'
- Lilli Carati as Bolero's partner
- Massimo Boldi as Massimo
External links
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- 1975 films
- 1970s Italian-language films
- 1975 comedy films
- Films directed by Sergio Corbucci
- Films set in Genoa
- Films set in Emilia-Romagna
- Films set in Milan
- Italian LGBTQ-related films
- Films about security and surveillance
- Films about adultery in Italy
- Italian comedy films
- Italian dance films
- 1970s dance films
- Films with screenplays by Mario Amendola
- 1970s Italian films
- 1975 LGBTQ-related films
- LGBTQ-related comedy films
- 1970s Italian comedy film stubs