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The Overcoat
Release Date: October 03, 1952
Year | : | 1952 |
Slogan | : | «» |
Genres | : | Fantasy, Comedy, Drama |
Production Companies | : | Titanus, Faro Film |
Director | : | Alberto Lattuada |
Producers | : | Enzo Curreli, Antonio Ansaldo-Patti |
Writers | : | Cesare Zavattini, Alberto Lattuada, Giorgio Prosperi, Nikolai Gogol, Luigi Malerba, Enzo Curreli, Leonardo Sinisgalli, Giordano Corsi |
RunTime | : | 101 mins. |
The classic Nicolas Gogal fable The Overcoat is given a European flavor by Italian filmmaker Alberto Lattuada; some consider the film to be Lattuada's best "psychological study." Comedian Renato Rascel plays a nebbishy nobody who spends his life-savings on a fancy overcoat. Suddenly, the nobody becomes a somebody, proving beyond doubt that clothes make the man. And then one day, the overcoat is stolen...Fleshing out the short-but-bittersweet Gogol original are several colorful new characters, including a publicity-hungry small-town mayor, played by Giulio Stival. The background music was composed by director Lattuada's wife Felice. American prints of Il Cappato are missing a so-called "naughty" telephone exchange between the mayor and his silken mistress.
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