Il mio amico Benito
{{Infobox film
| name = Il mio amico Benito
| image = File:Il mio amico Benito (1962 film) poster art.jpg
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| director = Giorgio Bianchi
| writer = Amleto Nobili
Luigi Magni
Stefano Strucchi
Oreste Biancoli
Giorgio Bianchi
Marino Girolami
Steno
Dino Risi
| starring =
| music = Armando Trovajoli
| cinematography = Tino Santoni
| editing =
| producer =
| released = {{Film date|1962}}
| language = Italian
}}
Il mio amico Benito is a 1962 commedia all'italiana film directed by Giorgio Bianchi.{{cite book|last=Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2007|isbn=8884405033}}{{cite book|last=Paolo Mereghetti|title=Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film|publisher=B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010|isbn=8860736269}}
Plot
Peppino Di Gennaro is a simple clerk who wants to make a career without success. After a friend gave him a photo taken during the First World War that shows him together with Benito Mussolini, he tries to take advantage of it getting an invitation from Duce, but the OVRA stops him every time. After numerous failed attempts he eventually succeeds in entering his office in the exact moment Mussolini was on the balcony announcing the Italian entry into the war; disappointed and embittered, Peppino goes away destroying the photo.
Cast
- Peppino De Filippo: Giuseppe Di Gennaro
- Didi Perego: Italia
- Mario Carotenuto: Mariani
- Andrea Checchi: Commissioner
- Emma Gramatica: Giuseppe's Mother
- Mac Ronay: Landolfi
- Luigi De Filippo: Fioretti
- Carlo Pisacane: Signor Arturo
- Riccardo Billi: Renzi
- Ciccio Barbi: Sor Achille
- Luigi Pavese: Pieroni
- Franco Giacobini: Liberati
- Giuseppe Porelli: Capo divisione
- Franco Franchi: Terrorist
- Ciccio Ingrassia: Terrorist
- Tiberio Murgia: Policeman
- Alberto Rabagliati: Himself
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb title|0148476}}
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Category:Films directed by Giorgio Bianchi
Category:Commedia all'italiana
Category:Films set in the 1940s
Category:1960s Italian-language films
Category:Italian-language comedy films
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