Totò al giro d'Italia

Totò al giro d'Italia
Directed by	Mario Mattoli
Produced by	Lorenzo Pegoraro
Written by	Vittorio Metz Marcello Marchesi
Starring	Totò
Music by	Nino Rota
Cinematography	Tino Santoni
Edited by	Giuliana Attenni
Release dates	1948 (1948)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Totò al giro d'Italia is a 1948 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò.^[1]

The film features cameos of famous cyclists of that time: Fausto Coppi, Gino Bartali, Fiorenzo Magni, Ferdi Kubler, Giordano Cottur, Gianni Ortelli, Oreste Conte, Adolfo Consolini, Louison Bobet, Briek Schotte, Amos Matteucci, Jean-Pierre Wimille, Ulisse Lorenzetti, Di Segni, Amadeo Deiana, Aldo Spoldi, Giuseppe Tosi, Camillo Achilli and Tazio Nuvolari.

Plot

Italy is about to take the famous cycling race of 1948, the event is seen by everyone, even by Dante Alighieri and by the Roman Emperor Nero from top of the Paradise. Totò is a mild professor who knows nothing about cycling and bicycles, but to make a good impression with his students is at stake practicing day after day. But Totò proves to be a total failure and so desperate calls the devil. This really comes and offers him a contract: Totò would win all cycling races past champions like Gino Bartali or Fausto Coppi, but in the end he had to give his soul and life after the demon. Totò initially includes only the first part of the contract or to win all the races, but then the demon appears to him a second time to remind him of the price you pay. Totò is desperate and does everything possible to not win the last race, but the legs on the pedals are as haunted and Totò can not stop. Approaching the last race and Totò is on the verge of collapsing morally, but his friends and the lovely Dorina, which Totò was madly in love, you invent a trick so clever as to deceive even the Devil.

Cast

Totò as Prof. Toto' Casamandrei
Isa Barzizza as Doriana
Giuditta Rissone as Signora Casamandrei
Walter Chiari as Bruno
Carlo Ninchi as Dante Alighieri
Luigi Catoni as Nerone
Mario Castellani as Renato Stella, allenatore
Carlo Micheluzzi as Il Diavolo
Fulvia Franco as Miss Italia
Alda Mangini as Gervasia
Ughetto Bertucci as Armando

References

↑ "New York Times: Totò al giro d'Italia". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-07-29.

External links

Totò al giro d'Italias at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Mario Mattoli

1930s	Full Speed I Love You Only The Man Who Smiles Sette giorni all'altro mondo La damigella di Bard Musica in piazza Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeo These Children Felicita Colombo Destiny Triumph of Love Nonna Felicità L'ha fatto una signora The Lady in White We Were Seven Sisters At Your Orders, Madame We Were Seven Widows Imputato, alzatevi! Mille chilometri al minuto! Lo vedi come sei... lo vedi come sei?

1940s	Abbandono The Pirate's Dream Non me lo dire! Luce nelle tenebre Schoolgirl Diary I Live as I Please Catene invisibili The Three Pilots The Lady Is Fickle Labbra serrate Stasera niente di nuovo La valle del diavolo La vispa Teresa Anything for a Song The Last Wagon The Za-Bum Circus Life Begins Anew Partenza ore 7 The Two Orphans Totò al giro d'Italia Fifa e arena Cab Number 13 Assunta Spina Signorinella The Firemen of Viggiù Adam and Eve

1950s	Totò Tarzan Il vedovo allegro L'inafferrabile 12 I cadetti di Guascogna Totò sceicco Vendetta... sarda Toto the Third Man Il padrone del vapore Arrivano i nostri Anema e core Accidents to the Taxes!! Five Paupers in an Automobile Neapolitan Turk Siamo tutti inquilini Funniest Show on Earth Two Nights with Cleopatra Totò cerca pace Il medico dei pazzi Poverty and Nobility L'ultimo amante Eighteen Year Olds I giorni più belli Peppino, le modelle e chella là Toto, Peppino and the Fanatics Move and I'll Shoot Tipi da spiaggia Prepotenti più di prima Non perdiamo la testa Guardatele ma non toccatele

1960s	Signori si nasce Un mandarino per Teo Appuntamento a Ischia Totò, Fabrizi e i giovani d'oggi Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare Hercules in the Valley of Woe Appuntamento in riviera 5 marines per 100 ragazze Obiettivo ragazze Corpse for the Lady For a Few Dollars Less

Nino Rota

Operas	Il cappello di paglia di Firenze I due timidi

Concertos	Trombone Concerto

Film soundtracks	Romeo and Juliet The Godfather "Speak Softly, Love" The Godfather Part II The Godfather Part III

Related articles	List of compositions by Nino Rota List of film scores by Nino Rota Nino Rota discography

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