| Sogni mostruosamente proibiti | |
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 Italian theatrical release poster by Renato Casaro | |
| Directed by | Neri Parenti |
| Written by | Neri Parenti Laura Toscano Franco Marotta |
| Starring | Paolo Villaggio Janet Agren |
| Cinematography | Alberto Spagnoli |
| Edited by | Sergio Montanari |
| Music by | Bruno Zambrini |
| Release date |
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| Running time | 90 min |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Sogni mostruosamente proibiti (transl. Monstrously Forbidden Dreams) is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Neri Parenti. The film is loosely inspired by The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Plot
Paolo Coniglio is a naive and bumbling writer in a publishing house of comics, bullied by the director and by his future mother-in-law. To escape the dreary daily routine, he finds himself the protagonist of very vivid daydreams in the company of Dalia, the beautiful heroine of the comic books who is responsible of translating. His visions play with popular heroes of the literature and comics, like Parsifal, Superman and Tarzan. Every time his awakening is increasingly more abrupt, when one day, doing the grocery shopping, he meets a charming blonde girl identical to Dalia that, against his will, involves him in a shady intrigue.
Cast
- Paolo Villaggio as Paolo Coniglio
- Janet Agren as Dalia
- Alessandro Haber as Commissioner Rovere
- Antonio Allocca as Brigadier Lamanna
- Sophia Lombardo as Marina Saracini
- Alida Valli as the mother of Marina
- Camillo Milli as the director of the publishing house
- Paul Muller as the Hotel Butler
- Stefano Antonucci as Franchini
- Chris Avram as Fonseca
- Giulio Farnese as Lawyer Bauer
- Paolo Gozlino as the conductor
- Ennio Antonelli as the driver
- Mike Bongiorno as himself
- Björn Borg as himself
See also
References
- Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 2000. ISBN 8877424230.
- Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 88-6073-626-9.
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