Via Padova 46

Via Padova 46
Directed by	Giorgio Bianchi
Written by	Aldo De Benedetti Leopoldo Trieste Giorgio Bianchi
Produced by	Carlo Minaldi
Starring	Peppino De Filippo Alberto Sordi Giulietta Masina Arlette Poirier
Cinematography	Carlo Montuori
Edited by
Music by	Nino Rota
Production company	Edo Film
Distributed by	Rank Film Distributors of Italy
Release date	18 November 1953
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Via Padova 46 is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring Peppino De Filippo, Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina and Arlette Poirier.

The film's sets were designed by the art director . It earned around 142 million lira at the box office.^[1]

Synopsis[]

In postwar Rome a clerk at the finance ministry leads a dull, monotonous life at work and had home where he lives with his hypochondriac wife and domineering mother-in-law. His life takes on air of excitement, however, when he is invited to a rendezvous at an apartment on the Via Padova with an attractive foreign woman. On arriving there he finds her murdered and now fears that the police are close on his trail.

Cast[]

• Peppino De Filippo as Arduino Buongiorno
• Alberto Sordi as Gianrico
• Giulietta Masina as Irene
• Arlette Poirier as Marcella Dupont
• Leopoldo Trieste as The Man with a Cigarette
• Ada Dondini as Arduino's Mother-in-Law
• as Carmela
• Luigi Pavese as The Office Manager
• Ernesto Almirante as Cesare
• Memmo Carotenuto as Bertuccelli
• Lamberto Maggiorani as The Porter in Via Padova
• Carlo Dapporto as Avvocato Tancredo Tancredi
• Vittorio Duse as Policeman at the Airport
• Franco Giacobini as The Journalist

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991.

External links[]

• Via Padova 46 at IMDb

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