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Via Padova 46

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Via Padova 46
Directed byGiorgio Bianchi
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyCarlo Montuori
Edited byAdriana Novelli
Music byNino Rota
Production
company
Edo Film
Distributed byRank Film Distributors of Italy
Release date
  • 18 November 1953 (1953-11-18)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Via Padova 46 is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring Peppino De Filippo, Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina and Arlette Poirier.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Saverio D'Eugenio. It earned around 142 million lira at the box office.[1]

Synopsis

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In postwar Rome a clerk at the finance ministry leads a dull, monotonous life at work and had home where he lives with his hypochondriac wife and domineering mother-in-law. His life takes on air of excitement, however, when he is invited to a rendezvous at an apartment on the Via Padova with an attractive foreign woman. On arriving there he finds her murdered and now fears that the police are close on his trail.

Songs

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In the scene where Arduino Buongiorno goes alone on Sunday afternoon to the Italia bar in Piazza della Repubblica in Rome to get some vanilla cake, the song Maria Magdalena sung by Flo Sandon's with the orchestra conducted by Federico is heard to the rhythm of samba Bergamini.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Chiti & Poppi p.400

Bibliography

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  • Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991.
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