The Yes Man (1991)

Cesare Botero (Nanni Moretti) is a young minister well-known to be corrupted and corrupter. He is looking for an appropriate spokesman. He finds the right person in Prof. Luciano Sandulli (... See full summary »

Director:

Daniele Luchetti

Writers:

Franco Bernini (story), Angelo Pasquini (story)

Stars:

Silvio Orlando, Nanni Moretti, Giulio Brogi

6 wins & 13 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Silvio Orlando	...	Luciano Sandulli
Nanni Moretti	...	Cesare Botero
Giulio Brogi	...	Francesco Sanna
Anne Roussel	...	Juliette
Graziano Giusti	...	Sebastiano Tramonti
Lucio Allocca	...	Remo Gola
Dario Cantarelli	...	Carissimi
Antonio Petrocelli	...	Polline
Gianna Paola Scaffidi	...	Adriana
Giulio Base	...	Driver
Guido Alberti	...	Carlo Sperati
Renato Carpentieri	...	Sartorio
Silvia Cohen	...	Giuliana Botero (as Silva Cohen)
Roberto De Francesco	...	Zollo
Dino Valdi	...	Federico Castri

Storyline

Cesare Botero (Nanni Moretti) is a young minister well-known to be corrupted and corrupter. He is looking for an appropriate spokesman. He finds the right person in Prof. Luciano Sandulli (Silvio Orlando). Sandulli is a very good and polite person, he is positive and full of hopes, but unluckily his economic position is disastrous. So he immediately accepts the new job. He has to write all the speeches of the minister, and soon became a sort of mentor. In fact his first impact with Rome and his politician world is positive, Sandulli is really convinced the young minister want really change the situation working for the common interest. But step by step, nevertheless his economic and familiar situation gets a lot of benefits by his new job, he enters in a world in which intrigues and corruption are the only laws. The honest Sandulli will react trying to resist to the cynic world of Botero. He will come back to his students.

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Plot Keywords:

naivety | student | politician | corruption | archive | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Details

Country:

Italy France

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

5 April 1991 (Italy)

Also Known As:

De tassendrager

Filming Locations:

Mantua, Lombardia, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sacher Film, Eidoscope Productions, Banfilm

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Nanni Moretti's character, Cesare Botero, is loosely based on controversial Italian politician Claudio Martelli.

User Reviews

Italy 1991

There are films that are photographs of peculiar moments in a country history. This is one of those. It tells about politicians in Italy in the early '90s, about corruption that was the rule in those years. The characters portrayed by Nanni Moretti is the perfect example of this kind of politician. After that came - in the real life - the trials in Milano, which tore up an entire way of make politics, corruption seemed to be won.. but only for a while. After 15 years many things are back to what they used to be, politician are in Italy as corrupted as they once were (perhaps they never ceased to be), but with different names and different flags and that's the saddest thing.