

This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.

Agostina Belli
Marcella Valmarin alias Alba Doris

Cochi Ponzoni
Roberto Trevisan

Maurizio Arena
Luciani

William Berger
Franz

Lino Toffolo
Gondrano Rossi

Vittorio Gassman
Franco Denza

Ugo Tognazzi
Adelmo

Paolo Baroni
segretario di Marcella

Renato Pozzetto
Bruno

Alvaro Vitali
Mario

Nora Orlandi

Franca Stoppi
la partigiana

Carla Terlizzi
Dino Baldazzi
Benito Mussolini
Eleonora Morana
madre di Marcella
Marcello Fusco

Laura Trotter
Loretta Mari

Enrico Marciani
Bisanti
Giovanni Brusadori
Il partigiano occhialuto
Edoardo Florio
Scandiani
Dino Risi
Bernardino Zapponi, Dino Risi, Ruggero Maccari
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