Bianco, rosso e Verdone

Italy

1981

110 Min

Color

Italian

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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SCR Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Carlo Verdone

CAST Carlo Verdone, Irina Sanpiter, Elena Fabrizi, Angelo Infanti, Milena Vukotic, Elisabeth Wiener, Mario Brega

Three Italians have to move from their current city to vote to local elections elsewhere. Pasquale is an Italian emigrant living in Munich (Germany). He has to vote somewhere in Calabria (south of Italy). He is genuinely happy to come back in Italy, even if just for some days; but the country he is dreaming is different from the reality he meets. Furio moves from Torino to Roma with all his family. He is so niggler and heavy that Magda, his wife, is thinking to escape. Mimmo is a young good fellow, moving with his grand mother, from Verona to Roma. His trip is disturbed by worries about her health, while she is very calm. –IMDb

Director

Carlo Verdone

Carlo Verdone (born 17 November 1950) is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.

Early life

Carlo Verdone was born in Rome to Mario Verdone, an important Italian film critic, and during his youth he earned a degree in Modern Literature at Sapienza University of Rome and a degree in Film Direction at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. During 1970s he started a television career highlighting his varied comic style.

Movie career

Verdone made his debut as director in 1980 with the movie Fun is beautiful, in which he played three different characters. He used the same formula of the first work in 1981, when he directed Bianco, rosso e Verdone, a funny movie about three men during the election day. The movie, produced by Sergio Leone, was a great success in Italy, thanks to his brilliant comic energy and to his odd characters. Carlo Verdone, in a long directing career, has refined very well his style, using very much the typical standard of the… read more