The Four Monks
The Four Monks | |
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Directed by | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia |
Written by | Bruno Corbucci Giovanni Grimaldi Gianni Buffardi |
Produced by | Gianni Buffardi |
Starring | Peppino De Filippo Aldo Fabrizi Erminio Macario Nino Taranto |
Cinematography | Enzo Barboni |
Edited by | Giuliana Attenni |
Music by | Armando Trovajoli |
Distributed by | Titanus |
Release date | 1962 |
Running time | 100 min |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
I 4 monaci (also I quattro monaci), internationally released as The Four Monks,[1] is a 1962 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia.
Plot[]
A group of four petty criminals, hoping to collect some money as a donation, masquerade as refugees monks from Hungary, however, they end up in a convent where they experience fasting and penance.
Cast[]
- Peppino De Filippo as Fra' Crispino
- Aldo Fabrizi as Fra' Giocondo
- Erminio Macario as Fra' Martino
- Nino Taranto as Fra' Gaudenzio
- Umberto Spadaro as Ortolan
- Luciana Gilli as Daughter
- as The Prior
- Nino Terzo as Calogero
- Linda Sini as The pharmacist's wife
- Carlo Taranto as Mafioso Saruzzo Messina
- Franco Ressel as Baron Cimino
- as Baroness Cimino
- Enzo Petito as Guardiano
References[]
- ^ James Robert Parish; Kingsley Canham (1976). Film directors guide--Western Europe. Scarecrow Press, 1976. ISBN 9780810809086.
External links[]
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Categories:
- Italian-language films
- 1962 films
- Italian films
- Films directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
- Italian comedy films
- 1962 comedy films
- 1960s Italian comedy film stubs