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Il mistero di Bellavista

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Il mistero di Bellavista
Directed byLuciano De Crescenzo
Written byLuciano De Crescenzo
Riccardo Pazzaglia
Story byLuciano De Crescenzo
StarringLuciano De Crescenzo
Marina Confalone
CinematographySebastiano Celeste
Edited byAnna Napoli[1]
Music byRenzo Arbore
Claudio Mattone
Production
company
Eidoscope International[1]
Distributed byColumbia Pictures[1]
Release date
  • 1985 (1985)
LanguageItalian

Il mistero di Bellavista (also known as Bellavista's Mystery and The Mystery of Bellavista) is a 1985 Italian comedy film written, directed and starring Luciano De Crescenzo.[2][3]

In the film, an attempt to observe Halley's Comet with a telescope allows two people to witness a murder. They realize that a woman is missing, and they start privately investigating the crime. But they accidentally uncover other crimes, such as the trade of art forgeries, and the smuggling of furs.

Plot

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From the terrace of his building Professor Bellavista is observing Halley's Comet. The goalkeeper Salvatore and his friend Saverio, instead of framing the comet, mistakenly point the telescope lens towards the window of an apartment in the opposite building, believing they are witnessing the murder of Mrs. Jolanda, a second-hand clothing dealer. Once on the spot, the mistress of the suspect apartment, a fur trafficker, is actually missing, leaving the ragù on the fire, even if the body is not found.

The group, together with other acquaintances, begins to privately investigate the crime, stumbling upon rather original subjects including a couple of elderly sisters who, to avoid eviction, pretend to have a crazy nephew at home, a decayed noble art expert who with the complicity of his wife he organizes dramas in order to sell fake paintings of value, until he runs into the Italian-American furrier Frank Amodio, a shady trafficker and lover of the missing lady.

Thanks to him, Bellavista's son-in-law, who emigrated to Northern Italy, finds his first buyer for a nuclear shelter, and it turns out that the missing lady had actually left suddenly.

Cast

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Il mistero di Bellavista (1985)". Archivio del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  2. ^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
  3. ^ Laura Morandini; Luisa Morandini; Morando Morandini (2010). Il Morandini 2011. Dizionario dei film. Zanichelli, 2010. ISBN 978-8808227225.
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