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This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.
Casts

Agostina Belli
Marcella Valmarin alias Alba Doris

Cochi Ponzoni
Roberto Trevisan

Maurizio Arena
Luciani

William Berger
Franz

Lino Toffolo
Gondrano Rossi

Vittorio Gassman
Franco Denza

Ugo Tognazzi
Adelmo

Paolo Baroni
segretario di Marcella

Renato Pozzetto
Bruno

Alvaro Vitali
Mario

Nora Orlandi

Franca Stoppi
la partigiana

Carla Terlizzi
Dino Baldazzi
Benito Mussolini
Eleonora Morana
madre di Marcella
Marcello Fusco

Laura Trotter
Loretta Mari

Enrico Marciani
Bisanti
Giovanni Brusadori
Il partigiano occhialuto
Edoardo Florio
Scandiani

Monica Fiorentini
La cameriera amica di Marcella
Toni Maestri
il padre di Marcella
Renate Schmidt
Giacomo Assandri

West Buchanan

Attilio Dottesio
il partigiano con la barba bianca

Carla Mancini
Le prostitute in divisa da marinaio
Alberto Postorino
il padre di Mario
Vittorio Zarfati

Milla Johansson
Party guest (uncredited)
Crews

Pio Angeletti
Producer

Adriano De Micheli
Producer

Dino Risi
Director

Bernardino Zapponi
Story

Dino Risi
Story
Ruggero Maccari
Screenplay

Dino Risi
Screenplay

Bernardino Zapponi
Screenplay
Alberto Gallitti
Editor

Armando Trovajoli
Original Music Composer
Claudio Cirillo
Director of Photography

Claudio Risi
First Assistant Director

Luciano Ricceri
Production Design

Luciano Ricceri
Costume Design
Mario D'Alessio
Production Manager
Carla Giarè
Script Supervisor
Antonio Randaccio
Assistant Costume Designer
Ezio Di Monte
Assistant Production Design
Oddone Bernardini
Camera Operator
Vittorio Massi
Sound
Giulio Natalucci
Makeup Artist
Giusy Bovino
Hairstylist
Anna Rosa Napoli
Assistant Editor
Paul Ronald
Still Photographer
Venanzio Biraschi
Sound Mixer
Renato Marinelli
Sound Effects
Backdrops & Posters


