Io speriamo che me la cavo (1992)
Dal best seller (1990) di Marcello D'Orta. Un maestro elementare è trasferito, per un errore del computer, dalla Liguria a un comune vicino a Napoli, dove gli viene assegnata una terza. Quando se ne andrà, avrà insegnato qualcosa, ma soprattutto qualcosa avrà imparato. Il film funziona per merito di Villaggio che qui scopre la sua faccia nascosta, la tenerezza. La Wertmüller mette la sordina al suo linguaggio eccitato e motorizzato, ma ogni tanto le scappa qualche acuto dissonante, soprattutto nella colonna sonora affardellata. E i bambini? Pur costretti a dialoghi scritti a tavolino, sono napoletani, dunque attori nati.
Direttore:
Lina Wertmüller
Scrittori:
Lina Wertmüller, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Alessandro Bencivenni, Domenico Saverni.
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Paolo Villaggio as Marco Sperelli |
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Isa Danieli as Preside |
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Paolo Bonacelli as Ludovico Mazzullo |
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Gigio Morra as Custode |
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Sergio Solli as Cartonaio |
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Ester Carloni as Zia Esterina |
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Mario Porfito as Sindaco Antonio Ruoppolo |
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Filomena Lieto as Cecchina |
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Alessandra Detora as Angeluccia |
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Raffaele Gioia as Autista |
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Adriano Pantaleo as Vincenzino |
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Ciro Esposito as Raffaele |
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Mario Bianco as Nicola |
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Pierfrancesco Borruto as Peppiniello |
| Directing | Lina Wertmüller | Director |
| Production | Ciro Ippolito | Producer |
| Writing | Andrej Longo | Co-Writer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Benito Persico | Costume Design |
| Editing | Tomasso Gramigna | Assistant Editor |
| Production | Stefano Spadoni | Unit Manager |
| Writing | Lina Wertmüller | Story |
| Writing | Lina Wertmüller | Screenplay |
| Camera | Carlo Tafani | Director of Photography |
| Lighting | Stefano Marino | Gaffer |
| Writing | Marcello D'Orta | Novel |
| Production | Gianni Cecchin | Line Producer |
| Camera | Antonio Benetti | Still Photographer |
| Sound | Alain Villeval | Sound |
| Directing | Ilaria Cirino Pomicino | Second Assistant Director |
| Writing | Leonardo Benvenuti | Screenplay |
| Sound | Carlo D'Angiò | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Franco Marino | Unit Manager |
| Camera | Gaetano Barbera | Key Grip |
| Crew | Adriano Pischiutta | Special Effects |
| Writing | Piero De Bernardi | Screenplay |
| Writing | Alessandro Bencivenni | Screenplay |
| Directing | Antonio Gabrielli | First Assistant Director |
| Editing | Giampiero Gramigna | Assistant Editor |
| Production | Rosa Pietrini | Production Secretary |
| Costume & Make-Up | Carlo Barucci | Hair Department Head |
| Sound | Danilo Moroni | Sound Mixer |
| Camera | Roberto Ruzzolini | Assistant Camera |
| Writing | Alessandro Bencivenni | Story |
| Production | Marina De Tiberiis | Production Manager |
| Production | Fulvio Rendina | Production Secretary |
| Writing | Leonardo Benvenuti | Story |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gilberto Provenghi | Makeup Department Head |
| Writing | Domenico Saverni | Screenplay |
| Directing | Stefano Amatucci | Second Assistant Director |
| Production | Daniela Rocco | Production Secretary |
| Production | Ciro Caruso | Production Secretary |
| Sound | Manvel Naudin | Boom Operator |
| Art | Enrico Job | Production Design |
| Production | Vittorio Cecchi Gori | Producer |
| Directing | Franca Invernizzi | Script Supervisor |
| Writing | Domenico Saverni | Story |
| Editing | Pierluigi Leonardi | Editor |
| Camera | Giovanni Angeloni | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Guido Chimatti | Assistant Camera |
| Production | Mario Cecchin | Unit Manager |
| Writing | Piero De Bernardi | Story |
| Production | Mario Cecchi Gori | Producer |
| Camera | Claudio Sabatini | Camera Operator |