Original title: Il maestro di Vigevano
Year: 1963
Country: Italy
Region code: A/B
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5060974684311
Image: 1080p
HDR: -
Audio: Italian - Uncompressed Mono PCM
Subtitles: English
Age rating: 12
Genre: Drama
Cast: Alberto Sordi, Claire Bloom
Director: Elio Petri
Synopsis:
Antonio Mombelli (Alberto Sordi, Il Vedovo) is content with his life as a primary school teacher in the small town of Vigevano. But his wife Ada (Claire Bloom, Limelight) is ashamed of their humble circumstances and dreams of something better for their family. She insists he quits his job, gives up on his pension, and opens a small shoe factory… Teetering between humour and tragedy, this early film by Elio Petri (A Quiet Place in the Country, The Working Class Goes to Heaven) is commedia all’italiana at its most bittersweet. Sordi’s bumbling husband careens from catastrophe to catastrophe as he navigates changing definitions for happiness in 1960s Italy.
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