Il ragazzo di campagna
| Il ragazzo di campagna | |
|---|---|
 Film poster | |
| Directed by |
Franco Castellano Giuseppe Moccia |
| Produced by |
Luciano Luna Achille Manzotti |
| Written by |
Franco Castellano Giuseppe Moccia |
| Starring |
Renato Pozzetto Massimo Boldi |
| Music by | Detto Mariano |
| Cinematography | Danilo Desideri |
| Edited by | Antonio Siciliano |
Release dates |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Il ragazzo di campagna ("The country boy") is a 1984 Italian comedy film directed by Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.[1]
Plot
Artemio (Pozzetto) has always lived in the countryside of Lombardy, inept in any other way in the world except dig the earth. When he turns 40, he realixes he has never had other experiences and jobs nor lived in a city, so he moves to the big and chaotic city of Milan to seek for a job. There he meets his cousin (Massimo Boldi), a trickster who gets him in trouble. When Artemio manages to escape from the police, he falls in love with a beautiful girl, but the distance between his countryside ways and mindset and those of the Milanese girl makes it impossible for the two to create a stable relationship. Disappointed by his failures, Artemio finally returns to the country after recovering the money needed for the family.
Il ragazzo di campagna has a cult status in Italian culture in its satyrical representation of the contradictions of the hectic life in Milan in the years of the Italian economic miracle (e.g., when Artemio resolves to take a taxi cab to cross the street in the impossibly trafficked Piazza San Babila). The inadequateness of Pozzetto-"country boy" in relating to Milan is reminiscent of that of Totò in another extremely popular film, Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy.
Cast
- Renato Pozzetto as Artemio
- Massimo Serato as the rower
- Enzo Cannavale as the blind man
- Donna Osterbuhr as Angela
- Clara Colosimo as Giovanna - mother of Artemio
- Renato D'Amore as the blacksmith
- Massimo Boldi as Severino Cicerchia
- Sandra Ambrosini
- Dino Cassio as Commissario Polizia (Pirata)
- Armando Celso
- Franco Diogene as 1st Recruitment Manager
- Enzo Garinei as the manager of apartment house
- Fabio Guffanti
- Daniela Piperno
- Massimo Pongolini as the doctor (as Pongo)
References
- ↑ "Italian Comedy - The State of Things". labiennale.org. Retrieved 2010-08-01.