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Directed by | Maurizio Ponzi |
Written by | Maurizio Ponzi Ottavio Jemma Piero De Bernardi Leo Benvenuti |
Story by | Ben Jonson |
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Cinematography | Sandro D'Eva |
Music by | Fabio Liberatori |
Distributed by | CDI[1] |
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Language | Italian |
Il volpone is a 1988 Italian comedy film directed in by Maurizio Ponzi, inspired by Ben Jonson's comedy with the same name. The film stars Enrico Montesano, Enrico Maria Salerno and Paolo Villaggio.[2]
Plot
[edit]Set in the Ligurian Riviera during the 1980s, it features Paolo Villaggio as Ugo Maria Volpone, a rich but apparently ill ship company owner. He is surrounded by a series of relatives and friends (played by Enrico Maria Salerno, Renzo Montagnani, Alessandro Haber) who blandish him in order to inherit his estate. The shrewd Volpone, in return, organizes a hoax against them to betray their greed. In the movie, he is joined by a new waiter, Bartolomeo Mosca (Enrico Montesano), who quickly shows himself to be as cunning as Volpone in arranging humiliations.
Cast
[edit]- Enrico Montesano: Bartolomeo Mosca
- Enrico Maria Salerno: Ciro Corvino
- Renzo Montagnani: Raffaele Voltore
- Athina Cenci: Marta Corbaccio
- Alessandro Haber: Ernesto Corbaccio
- Mariangela Giordano: Eliana Voltore
- Eleonora Giorgi: Francesca Corvino
- Paolo Villaggio: Ugo Maria Volpone
- Maurizio Donadoni: Aldo Marignano
- Sabrina Ferilli: Rosalba Marignano
References
[edit]- ^ "Il volpone (1988)". Archivio del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
External links
[edit]- Il volpone at IMDb