Il volpone (1988)

Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts ... See full summary »

Director:

Maurizio Ponzi

Writers:

Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi,

Stars:

Enrico Montesano, Paolo Villaggio, Enrico Maria Salerno

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Enrico Montesano	...	Bartolomeo Mosca
Paolo Villaggio	...	Ugo Maria Volpone
Enrico Maria Salerno	...	Ciro Corvino
Renzo Montagnani	...	Raffaele Voltore
Athina Cenci	...	Marta Corbaccio
Alessandro Haber	...	Ernesto Corbaccio
Mariangela Giordano	...	Eliana Voltore
Sabrina Ferilli	...	Rosalba
Giancarlo Palermo	...	Notaio Coletti
Maurizio Donadoni	...	Aldo Marignano
Eleonora Giorgi	...	Francesca Corvino
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Vittorio Amandola
Elena Berera
Alberto Colman
Antonio Coreni

Storyline

Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?

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Plot Keywords:

inheritance | humiliation | joke | extortion | foreign language adaptation | 

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Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

25 February 1988 (Italy)

Also Known As:

The Big Fox

Company Credits

Production Co:

Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica, Maura International Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

115 min

Color:

Color

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