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Director:
Luigi Zampa
Writers:
Sergio Amidei (writer)
Giuseppe D'Agata (novel)
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Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
Comedy on the disasterous Italian national health/medical system ! more (1 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Alberto Sordi ... Dr. Guido Tersilli
Sara Franchetti ... Teresa
Ida Galli ... Anna Maria (as Evelyn Stewart)
Nanda Primavera ... Tersilli's Mother
Bice Valori ... Amelia, the Widow
Leopoldo Trieste ... Pietro
Franco Scandurra ... Dr. Bui
Claudio Gora ... The Chief Physician
Pupella Maggio ... Mrs. Parise
Franco Gelli ... One of Tersilli's Colleagues
Tano Cimarosa ... Laganà
Sandro Merli ... Dr. Drufo
Marisa Traversi ... The Prostitute
Sandro Dori ... Dr. Zucconi
Marco Tulli
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Be Sick... It's Free (International: English title)
The Family Doctor
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Runtime:
98 min
Country:
Italy
Language:
Italian
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Euro Film more

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Trivia:
When the Giuseppe D'Agata novel came out, the Italian Physician Order (Ordine dei Medici) filed a complaint against the author and lost the lawsuit. The same thing happened when first the movie came out. more
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Followed by Il prof. Dott. Guido Tersilli, primario della clinica Villa Celeste convenzionata con le mutue (1969) more

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Comedy on the disasterous Italian national health/medical system !, 26 August 2002
7/10
Author: kristen Skullerud (skulli99@hotmail.com) from Rome, Italy



Story of an ambitious young medical school graduate who through not always ethical means makes a rapid career. Even though its not the best of Alberto Sordi's tragicomical films, this film tells the public about all the inefficiencies and absurdies of the national sanitary system, almost to become a documentary ,but retaining always that 'commedia all'Italiana' satire on Italian society ! The film was so pungent in its critism of the amorality of the Italian medical category, that the Italian Medical Association condemned the film , even though many doctors in private admitted to Alberto Sordi that his film basically depicted well the situation. Now the system of 'mutue' has been abolished in Italy, so the film is only relevant as social criticism for Italy of the early 1970's, but always interesting to watch, and additionally you can have a few laugh's.A 7 vote.

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