POLICE CHIEF PEPE
by Ettore Scola
synopsis
A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a dyke and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
international title: | Police Chief Pepe |
original title: | Il commissario Pepe |
country: | Italy |
year: | 1969 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Ettore Scola |
film run: | 107' |
release date: | IT 02/10/1969, PT 15/11/1971, FR 05/09/1979 |
screenplay: | Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola |
cast: | Ugo Tognazzi, Silvia Dionisio, Tano Cimarosa, Giuseppe Maffioli, Dana Ghia, Elsa Vazzoler, Véronique Vendell, Rita Calderoni, Elena Persiani, Umberto Simonetta, Paola Natale, Pippo Starnazza, Gino Santercole, Michele Capnist |
cinematography by: | Claudio Cirillo |
film editing: | Tatiana Casini Morigi |
art director: | Gianni Polidori |
costumes designer: | Gianni Polidori |
music: | Armando Trovajoli |
producer: | Pio Angeletti, Adriano De Micheli |