UN AMERICANO A ROMA
synopsis
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome. He is fond for everything coming from the United States. He tries to speak American-English, to wear clothes he thinks Americans wear, to walk like John Wayne, and to eat cornflakes with ketchup - His life is a parody of the real American way of life that he could not get. Nando's not-so-secret dream is to visit the USA, so he climbs up to the Coliseum and threats to commit suicide if the American Embassy does not give him the visa. But at this point Nando is very well known as a 'crazy-for-USA' boy and the troubles he provoked will not help him.
original title: | Un americano a Roma |
country: | Italy |
year: | 1954 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Stefano "Steno" Vanzina |
film run: | 94' |
release date: | IT 17/12/1954, ES 29/07/1959, HU 30/04/1961 |
screenplay: | Sandro Continenza, Lucio Fulci, Ettore Scola, Alberto Sordi, Stefano "Steno" Vanzina |
cast: | Alberto Sordi, Maria Pia Casilio, Anita Durante, Giulio Calì, Galeazzo Benti, Carlo Delle Piane, Rocco D'Assunta, Ivy Nicholson, Charles Fawcett, Vincenzo Talarico, Luigi Giacosi, Salvo Libassi |
cinematography by: | Carlo Montuori |
film editing: | Giuliana Attenni |
art director: | Piero Filippone |
costumes designer: | Giorgio Veccia |
music: | Angelo Francesco Lavagnino |
producer: | Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti |