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:
Piero De Bernardi, Lina Wertmüller, Leonardo Benvenuti, 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 |
| Editing | Pierluigi Leonardi | Editor |
| Production | Ciro Caruso | Production Secretary |
| Writing | Leonardo Benvenuti | Story |
| Writing | Piero De Bernardi | Screenplay |
| Camera | Giovanni Angeloni | Assistant Camera |
| Editing | Giampiero Gramigna | Assistant Editor |
| Sound | Alain Villeval | Sound |
| Costume & Make-Up | Benito Persico | Costume Design |
| Camera | Antonio Benetti | Still Photographer |
| Production | Rosa Pietrini | Production Secretary |
| Costume & Make-Up | Carlo Barucci | Hair Department Head |
| Writing | Lina Wertmüller | Screenplay |
| Camera | Claudio Sabatini | Camera Operator |
| Writing | Lina Wertmüller | Story |
| Writing | Piero De Bernardi | Story |
| Production | Mario Cecchi Gori | Producer |
| Lighting | Stefano Marino | Gaffer |
| Writing | Leonardo Benvenuti | Screenplay |
| Sound | Carlo D'Angiò | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Vittorio Cecchi Gori | Producer |
| Production | Fulvio Rendina | Production Secretary |
| Art | Enrico Job | Production Design |
| Directing | Ilaria Cirino Pomicino | Second Assistant Director |
| Production | Mario Cecchin | Unit Manager |
| Sound | Danilo Moroni | Sound Mixer |
| Camera | Guido Chimatti | Assistant Camera |
| Production | Franco Marino | Unit Manager |
| Crew | Adriano Pischiutta | Special Effects |
| Writing | Domenico Saverni | Story |
| Writing | Alessandro Bencivenni | Story |
| Production | Marina De Tiberiis | Production Manager |
| Writing | Alessandro Bencivenni | Screenplay |
| Directing | Antonio Gabrielli | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Franca Invernizzi | Script Supervisor |
| Camera | Roberto Ruzzolini | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Gaetano Barbera | Key Grip |
| Directing | Stefano Amatucci | Second Assistant Director |
| Production | Daniela Rocco | Production Secretary |
| Sound | Manvel Naudin | Boom Operator |
| Writing | Domenico Saverni | Screenplay |
| Writing | Marcello D'Orta | Novel |
| Production | Gianni Cecchin | Line Producer |
| Editing | Tomasso Gramigna | Assistant Editor |
| Writing | Andrej Longo | Co-Writer |
| Camera | Carlo Tafani | Director of Photography |
| Production | Stefano Spadoni | Unit Manager |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gilberto Provenghi | Makeup Department Head |