Medico per forza

Medico per forza
Directed by	Carlo Campogalliani
Produced by	Cines
Written by	Molière
Starring	Ettore Petrolini Tilde Mercandalli Letizia Quaranta
Music by	Pietro Sassòli
Production company	Cines Studios, Rome
Release dates	1931
Running time	55 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Medico per forza (The Doctor in spite of himself) is a 1931 film directed by Carlo Campogalliani. It is a free adaptation of Molière's play Le Médecin malgré lui.

After starring the comedy, for many times in the theaters, Ettore Petrolini^[1] reinvents Sganarelle, in a way close to the character Bertoldo of Giulio Cesare Croce. Referring to Petrolini, the film critic Filippo Sacchi had written "You have to accept it as it is, with his temperament and his admirable qualities ... with the grotesque and the joke that elude even without logic in the comic genre"^[2]

Cast

• Ettore Petrolini as Sganarello
• Tilde Mercandalli as Lucinda
• Letizia Quaranta as Martina
• Augusto Contardi as Geronte
• Sergio Rovida as Leandro
• Elma Krimer as the nurse
• Dria Paola
• Enzo De Felice
• Checco Durante

References

1. who had collaborated with the director, to the adaptation of the play

External links

• Medico per forza at the Internet Movie Database