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1981
2h 15m
Mario Monicelli
The Marquis of Grillo
★ 7.7 IMDb
Comedy
History
Made in Europe
In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.
Writers
Mario Monicelli
,
Bernardino Zapponi
,
Alberto Sordi
,
Piero De Bernardi
,
Leonardo Benvenuti
,
Tullio Pinelli
Cast
Alberto Sordi
,
Paolo Stoppa
,
Caroline Berg
,
Riccardo Billi
DP
Sergio D'Offizi
Production Designer
Lorenzo Baraldi
Music
Nicola Piovani
Essays and Criticism
On Mario Monicelli
Mario Monicelli: Still Alive and Kicking By Sergei Lavrentiev
by Sergei Lavrentiev,
FIPRESCI
Monicelli Revisited: Empathy and Sin
by Duncan Gray,
MUBI Notebook
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