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