Ante Up (film)

Ante Up
DVD cover
Directed by	Paolo Nuzzi
Produced by	Leo Pescarolo
Written by	Paolo Nuzzi Piero Chiara Maria Pia Sollima
Starring	Aldo Maccione
Music by	Franco Micalizzi
Cinematography	Arturo Zavattini
Edited by	Antonio Siciliano
Release dates	14 November 1974
Running time	108 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Ante Up (Italian: Il piatto piange) is a 1974 Italian comedy film directed by Paolo Nuzzi. It was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival.^[1]

Plot

During the Mussolini era some young people meet frequently. They exchange stories about recent events while playing cards. Between their meetings they have different kinds of adventures.

Cast

• Aldo Maccione - Camola
• Agostina Belli - Ines
• Andréa Ferréol - Lirica, the singer
• Erminio Macario - Brovelli, the fool (as Macario)
• Renato Pinciroli - Rimediotti
• Franco Diogene - Peppino, the barber
• Claudio Gora - the doctor
• Guido Leontini - Spreafico
• Armando Brancia - Giuseppe Migliavacca
• Daniele Vargas - the lawyer
• Maria Antonietta Beluzzi - Mamma Rosa
• Alessandra Cardini - (as Sandra Cardini)
• Nazzareno Natale - Bertinelli, the groom
• Giuseppe Maffioli - Venezia
• Bernard Blier - the priest
• Angelo Pellegrino - the photographer

References

1. "IMDB.com: Awards for Ante Up". imdb.com. Retrieved 2010-07-09.

External links

• Ante Up at the Internet Movie Database