Toto Tours Italy

Toto Tours Italy
Film poster
Directed byMario Mattoli
Written byVittorio Metz
Marcello Marchesi
Produced byLorenzo Pegoraro
StarringTotò
Isa Barzizza
Giuditta Rissone
Fulvia Franco
CinematographyTino Santoni
Edited byGiuliana Attenni
Music byNino Rota
Production
company
Distributed byENIC
Release date
  • 30 December 1948 (1948-12-30)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Toto Tours Italy (Italian: Totò al giro d'Italia) is a 1948 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò.[1] Location shooting took place around Italy including in Bologna and Milan. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone.

The film features cameos of famous cyclists and other sportsmen of the time: Fausto Coppi, Gino Bartali, Fiorenzo Magni, Ferdi Kubler, Giordano Cottur, Gianni Ortelli, Oreste Conte, Adolfo Consolini, Louison Bobet, Briek Schotte, Amos Matteucci, Jean-Pierre Wimille, Ulisse Lorenzetti, Di Segni, Amadeo Deiana, Aldo Spoldi, Giuseppe Tosi, Camillo Achilli and Tazio Nuvolari.

Plot

Totò Casamandrei, a middle-aged high school professor, sells his soul to the Devil to win the Giro d'Italia and impress the young Doriana, a cycling fan.

Cast

References

  1. ^ "New York Times: Totò al giro d'Italia". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2011. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2008.

Bibliography

  • Brunetta, Gian Piero. The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century. Princeton University Press, 2009.


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