Release CalendarTop 250 MoviesMost Popular MoviesBrowse Movies by GenreTop Box OfficeShowtimes & TicketsMovie NewsIndia Movie Spotlight
    What's on TV & StreamingTop 250 TV ShowsMost Popular TV ShowsBrowse TV Shows by GenreTV News
    What to WatchLatest TrailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightFamily Entertainment GuideIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsCannes Film FestivalStar WarsAsian Pacific American Heritage MonthSummer Watch GuideSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll Events
    Born TodayMost Popular CelebsCelebrity News
    Help CenterContributor ZonePolls
For Industry Professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign In
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
  • Trivia
IMDbPro

An American in Rome

Original title: Un americano a Roma
  • 1954
  • 1h 34m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
2.1K
YOUR RATING
An American in Rome (1954)
SlapstickComedy

Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome. He is fond for everything coming from the United States. He tries to speak American-English, to wear clothes he thinks Americans wear, to wa... Read allNando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome. He is fond for everything coming from the United States. He tries to speak American-English, to wear clothes he thinks Americans wear, to walk like John Wayne, and to eat cornflakes with ketchup - His life is a parody of the real ... Read allNando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome. He is fond for everything coming from the United States. He tries to speak American-English, to wear clothes he thinks Americans wear, to walk like John Wayne, and to eat cornflakes with ketchup - His life is a parody of the real American way of life that he could not get. Nando's not-so-secret dream is to visit the US... Read all

  • Director
    • Steno
  • Writers
    • Sandro Continenza
    • Lucio Fulci
    • Ettore Scola
  • Stars
    • Alberto Sordi
    • Maria Pia Casilio
    • Ilse Peterson
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.9/10
    2.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Steno
    • Writers
      • Sandro Continenza
      • Lucio Fulci
      • Ettore Scola
    • Stars
      • Alberto Sordi
      • Maria Pia Casilio
      • Ilse Peterson
    • 5User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • Photos10

    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    + 4
    View Poster

    Top cast42

    Edit
    Alberto Sordi
    Alberto Sordi
    • Nando Moriconi
    Maria Pia Casilio
    Maria Pia Casilio
    • Elvira
    Ilse Peterson
    • Molly
    • (as Ilse Petersen)
    Anita Durante
    • Madre di Nando
    Giulio Calì
    • Padre di Nando
    Galeazzo Benti
    • Fred Buonanotte
    Carlo Delle Piane
    Carlo Delle Piane
    • Cicalone Romolo
    Rocco D'Assunta
    Rocco D'Assunta
    • Commissario
    Ivy Nicholson
    Ivy Nicholson
    • Amica di Molly
    • (as Ivy Nicolson)
    Charles Fawcett
    • Mr. Brooks
    Caterine Alcajde
    • Ballerina dell'avanspettacolo
    Archibald L. Lyall
    • Ambasciatore
    • (as Arcibaldo Layall)
    Vincenzo Talarico
    • Onorevole Borgiano
    Luigi Giacosi
    • Medico
    Salvo Libassi
    • Tullio, radiotecnico
    Marcello Giorda
    Marcello Giorda
    • Spettatore anziano alla TV
    Leopoldo Trieste
    Leopoldo Trieste
    • Spettatore alla TV
    Cristina Fantoni
    • Spettatrice giovane alla TV
    • Director
      • Steno
    • Writers
      • Sandro Continenza
      • Lucio Fulci
      • Ettore Scola
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

    User reviews5

    6.92K
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10

    Featured reviews

    6meinwonderland

    His love for everything American is hilarious

    Its greatest asset is Alberto Sordi whose histrionic displays of temper make the movie a successful platform for humor. Nando Moriconi is a young Italian who loves everything American; he tries to dress, walk, talk, and think like an American. From the start, a voice-over introduces him, and we're allowed to explore his American-memorabilia-filled room. This serves as a very good character introduction. Without meeting him yet, we already have a good idea of who he is, an idea that the film will emphasize time and again by Nando's desire to cross the Atlantic and visit the U. S. A.

    Un Americano a Roma captures the Italian culture of the 1950s' and the post-war fascination many youngsters had for the United States culture. The Golden Age of Hollywood was what positioned the U. S. A. As the leading force in entertainment, and it's no surprise echoes of this would reach across Europe. There are many hilarious scenes in this story where Nando's italo-american way of speaking, he randomly uses words in English while talking in Italian, stands out among his fellows, but also when his opinion of mastering the American language clashes with reality, producing bad communication and misunderstanding.
    7tptensToadykingPiaCatDogSnailAnt

    Americano Americano Americano

    Spaghetti is called worm which is funny, funny stuff, great charming sequences and the title at first is like pedestrian but then you realize oh yeah it is a clever title, the guy Alberto is a great cosmic entity of awesomeness, epic ness, a just excellent picaro character portrayal of this sequences of heightened reality, improbable but not impossible events of craving for America while conjuring up ideas in Roma, the is a craving I already read about in other biographies of italian directors around this era so this is a well known craving and shown here awesome as they use the best thing while in some place craving for something else, imagination.
    8elvinjones

    freewheelin' Nando!

    This is one of the most famous and loved pictures of the late Alberto Sordi. He plays the role of Nando Meniconi, a young man crazy about U.S.A., in line with the post-war attraction for the country that wins the comflict and "free" Italy. Wearing in denim with a basketball hat, crazy about Joe DiMaggio, Nando is a living danger for all is around him; parents, girlfriend, occasional partners. The plot is confused and low budget; some of the situations are only a veichle for the non-stop improvisative vein of the master actor but this movie is very memorable because is Sordi state-of-art. This is a portrait in which a lot of italians would be recognized. And, if you know italian language, you can laugh all the time. Is a counterpoint for the neorealism school; where you have realism and social critic here you have innocent but funny and realistic parody of costumes and mentality of the italian boys of the '50; chewing gum, toy guns and...hopes for a far, young, winner land...Noew is different but I think that America craze exist the same today!!! w Nando and his spaghetti!!!
    jennyred49

    this film is amazing!

    I find his interpretation of the young "romano" who wants to be "americano" fantastic, and although I did not like Alberto Sordi when I first came to Italy (1970) I realize I did not understand the humor or the culture, but since then I have seen many of his films , and this remains one of my favourites. It is lively, funny, relaxing, and also shows how the "americanisation" has really come about (cereals for breakfast, fast food, cars, blue jeans) which were a joke then, are everyday reality today) However one thing has however survived, the love for spaghetti by the Italians, in fact one of the scenes I prefer is when Alberto decides to destroy his huge plate of spaghetti, as I like to destroy them in the same way. It is a film that can be seen over and over again . If you want to learn more about the Italians from the "inside" Alberto sordi is the actor to follow in the last 50 years

    More like this

    A Day in Court
    6.5
    A Day in Court
    Miseria e nobiltà
    7.6
    Miseria e nobiltà
    Cops and Robbers
    7.7
    Cops and Robbers
    Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina
    7.7
    Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina
    Il medico della mutua
    7.1
    Il medico della mutua
    Il vigile
    7.2
    Il vigile
    La banda degli onesti
    7.5
    La banda degli onesti
    Un sacco bello
    7.2
    Un sacco bello
    Fiasco in Milan
    6.9
    Fiasco in Milan
    The Gold of Naples
    7.3
    The Gold of Naples
    Big Deal on Madonna Street
    7.9
    Big Deal on Madonna Street
    I complessi
    7.2
    I complessi

    Storyline

    Edit

    Did you know

    Edit
    • Trivia
      In 2008, the film was selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved (100 film italiani da salvare). The list was created with the aim to report "100 films that have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978". The project was established by the Venice Days ("Giornate degli Autori") in the Venice Film Festival, in collaboration with Cinecittà Holding and with the support of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.
    • Goofs
      A white towel covering Alberto Sordi's private area is seen at the bottom edge of the screen during the nude modeling scene.
    • Quotes

      Nando Moriconi: [uncovering a plate of spaghetti] What is now? Uh... Maccheroni! Maccheroni, this is stuff for carters! I don't eat Maccheroni, I am American, I am! Red wine. I don't drink red wine. You know that I am American. Americans don't eat Maccheroni. Americans eat marmalade, marmalade. This is stuff for Americans. Yogurt, mustard. That's why the Americans win the Apache. They fight Indians. Americans don't drink red wine, they drink milk. That's why they don't get drunk. Have you ever seen a drunk American? I have never seen a drunk American. Americans are strong! You cannot fight against Americans. Americans eat marmalade. Maccheroni, ah... I destroy you! What you're looking at me for? With that fearless face. You look like a worm to me, Maccheroni. This is stuff for Americans, you see? Yogurt, marmalade, mustard. A little bit of milk. This is stuff that Americans eat, you see? Healthy stuff, satisfying.

      [he puts the American food on a piece of bread, starts eating it, and then spits it out]

      Nando Moriconi: Damn, what a filth! Americans, oh! Maccheroni, you provoked me and I destroy you now! I'm gonna eat you!

      [he starts eating the spaghetti]

      Nando Moriconi: [putting the American food on the floor] This we'll give to the cat. This is for the mouse. This will kill the bedbugs. And I drink milk.

      [he drinks some wine]

      Nando Moriconi: I'm American! Worm, I'm gonna eat you!

      [he eats some more spaghetti]

    • Connections
      Featured in Ridendo e scherzando - Ritratto di un regista all'italiana (2015)

    Top picks

    Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations
    Sign in

    Details

    Edit
    • Release date
      • November 20, 1985 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
    • Language
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Ein Amerikaner in Rom
    • Filming locations
      • Rome, Lazio, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Excelsa Film
      • Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica
    • See more company credits at IMDbPro

    Tech specs

    Edit
    • Runtime
      1 hour 34 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

    Related news

    Contribute to this page

    Suggest an edit or add missing content
    An American in Rome (1954)
    Top Gap
    What is the English language plot outline for An American in Rome (1954)?
    Answer
    • See more gaps
    • Learn more about contributing
    Edit page

    More to explore

    Recently viewed

    Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
    Get the IMDb app
    Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
    Follow IMDb on social
    Get the IMDb app
    For Android and iOS
    Get the IMDb app
    • Help
    • Site Index
    • IMDbPro
    • Box Office Mojo
    • License IMDb Data
    • Press Room
    • Advertising
    • Jobs
    • Conditions of Use
    • Privacy Policy
    • Your Ads Privacy Choices
    IMDb, an Amazon company

    © 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.