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Alfredo, Alfredo

Original title: Alfredo Alfredo
  • 19721972
  • RR
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
1.1K
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Alfredo Alfredo (1972)
  • Comedy
  • Romance
Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
1.1K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Pietro Germi
  • Writers
    • Leonardo Benvenuti(story)
    • Piero De Bernardi(story)
    • Tullio Pinelli(story)
  • Stars
    • Dustin Hoffman
    • Stefania Sandrelli
    • Carla Gravina
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  • Director
    • Pietro Germi
  • Writers
    • Leonardo Benvenuti(story)
    • Piero De Bernardi(story)
    • Tullio Pinelli(story)
  • Stars
    • Dustin Hoffman
    • Stefania Sandrelli
    • Carla Gravina
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    • 6User reviews
    • 12Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination

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    Alfredo Alfredo (1972)
    Dustin Hoffman and Stefania Sandrelli in Alfredo Alfredo (1972)
    Duilio Del Prete and Stefania Sandrelli in Alfredo Alfredo (1972)
    Gino Baghetti in Alfredo Alfredo (1972)
    Gino Baghetti and Stefania Sandrelli in Alfredo Alfredo (1972)
    Dustin Hoffman in Alfredo Alfredo (1972)
    Stefania Sandrelli in Alfredo Alfredo (1972)
    Stefania Sandrelli in Alfredo Alfredo (1972)
    Dustin Hoffman in Alfredo Alfredo (1972)
    Dustin Hoffman and Stefania Sandrelli in Alfredo Alfredo (1972)
    Carla Gravina in Alfredo Alfredo (1972)
    Dustin Hoffman in Alfredo Alfredo (1972)

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    Dustin Hoffman
    Dustin Hoffman
    • Alfredo Sbisàas Alfredo Sbisà
    Stefania Sandrelli
    Stefania Sandrelli
    • Maria Rosa Cavaroni in Sbisàas Maria Rosa Cavaroni in Sbisà
    Carla Gravina
    Carla Gravina
    • Carolina Bettias Carolina Betti
    Saro Urzì
    Saro Urzì
    • Maria Rosa's Fatheras Maria Rosa's Father
    Duilio Del Prete
    Duilio Del Prete
    • Oresteas Oreste
    Gino Baghetti
    • Alfredo's Fatheras Alfredo's Father
    • (as Luigi Baghetti)
    Renzo Marignano
    • The Doctoras The Doctor
    Danika La Loggia
    Danika La Loggia
    • Maria Rosa's Motheras Maria Rosa's Mother
    Clara Colosimo
    Clara Colosimo
    • Carolina's Motheras Carolina's Mother
    Enzo Cannavale
    Enzo Cannavale
    • Alfredo's Lawyeras Alfredo's Lawyer
    • (as Vincenzo Cannavale)
    Daniele Patella
    • Carolina's Fatheras Carolina's Father
    Elisabetta Genovese
    Elisabetta Genovese
    • Crucifissa, the Gypsyas Crucifissa, the Gypsy
    • (as Elisabetta Vito)
    Emanuela Fallini
    • Nora - the Therapistas Nora - the Therapist
    Jean Dumontet
    Gianni Rizzo
    Gianni Rizzo
    • A Judgeas A Judge
    Ursula Davis
    Ursula Davis
    • Irene, Cashier at Baras Irene, Cashier at Bar
    • (as Pier Anna Quaia)
    Mario Frera
    • Alfred's Second Lawyeras Alfred's Second Lawyer
    Loredana Martinez
    • Giannaas Gianna
    • Director
      • Pietro Germi
    • Writers
      • Leonardo Benvenuti(story) (screenplay)
      • Piero De Bernardi(story) (screenplay)
      • Tullio Pinelli(story) (screenplay)
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    Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected. —Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
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    • Taglines
      • Do you, Alfredo, take this woman to be your awful wedded wife?
    • Genres
      • Comedy
      • Romance
    • Certificate
      • R
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Dustin studiously learned his part in Italian before leaving for Rome but it was shot in English then dubbed into Italian.
    • Alternate versions
      Original Italian version runs 110 minutes; American version is shortened to 98 mins.
    • Connections
      Featured in V.O.S.: Lo que NO te cuentan: El sonido directo (2021)
    • Soundtracks
      Sponsali
      Written by Pietro Germi and Carlo Rustichelli

      Interpreted by Pino Ferrara

    User reviews6

    Review
    Top review
    6/10
    The loves of an Italian nebbish
    Dustin Hoffman plays that nebbiscio italiano. He's the sort of person who spends his evenings at home with his father watching slideshows. Of his best friend having a good time.

    Dustin tends to mug a bit, but he's fine in general. You tend to forget that you're not hearing him speak Italian. That trick is pulled off easily enough; most of the "dialogue" is done in voice-over by Dustin's character. He doesn't actually have to say much more than the occasional "Pronto!" on the telephone.

    Director Pietro Germi has an uncanny ability to populate his films with beautiful young women. The lovely Cosetta Greco comes to mind. Gina Lollobrigida and Claudia Cardinale are just average by Germi standards -- nothing special. Here Dustin's co-star is Stefania Sandrelli, the stunning Stefania Sandrelli. Stunning by Germi standards. She's more ravishing here than she is in his earlier "Seduced and Abandoned", another farce from 1964. She makes me think a little of a Catholic Elsa Zylberstein with a cleft chin. "Stefania! Stefania!" the film could have been called.

    Writer/director Germi then plays matchmaker, putting the stammering junior bank employee, Dustin, together with Stefania, the kohl-eyed Venus of hot-blooded pharmacists, creating a classic Italian sex farce.

    This film does not have a good reputation, but it produced plenty of big laughs this evening at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Admittedly, it was a Pietro Germi Festival audience, many of them Italian speakers. Hardly a tough crowd. And it was the full-length original cut. The humour is very broad and could easily fail miserably on television.

    The film shifts gears midway through, grinds gears really. Stefania, the angel-madonna-whore, turns out to be a "strega" as they like to say in Italian, and the film turns into a semi-serious pro-divorce romance cum drama cum political manifesto on the necessity for Italian legislative reform. And all a little unexpectedly. Do we detect some directorial autobiography intruding into the story at this point?

    Tonight I was expecting something extremely bad, something along the lines of Dustin's other adventure in Italian filmmaking, "Madigan's Million" (1968), but I got something considerably better than that. The treasure hunt sequence is rather cute.

    But let the viewer beware.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 17, 1973 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Italy
      • France
    • Languages
      • Italian
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Alfredo Alfredo
    • Filming locations
      • Ascoli Piceno, Marche, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Francoriz Production
      • R.P.A. Cinematografica
      • Rizzoli Film
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $149,792
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 38 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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