Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition ...
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Title: Unfair Competition (2001)
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Diego Abatantuono | ... | Umberto Melchiori |
| Sergio Castellitto | ... | Leone DellaRocca | |
| Gérard Depardieu | ... | Professor Angelo | |
| Antonella Attili | ... | Giuditta DellaRocca | |
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Claudio Bigagli | ... | Police inspector |
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Sandra Collodel | ... | DellaRocca's Maid |
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Augusto Fornari | ... | Zio Peppino |
| Elio Germano | ... | Paolo Melchiori | |
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Sabrina Impacciatore | ... | Matilde |
| Eliana Miglio | ... | Mrs. Di Veroli | |
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Rolando Ravello | ... | Ignazietto Paspinelli |
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Gioia Spaziani | ... | Susanna DellaRocca |
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Anita Zagaria | ... | Margherita Melchiori |
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Simone Ascani | ... | Lele DellaRocca |
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Walter Dragonetti | ... | Pietruccio Melchiori / narrator |
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Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the neighborhood. But they leave differences aside when the rise of Fascism places Anti-Semitic politics which rigidly control business like the one conducted by the Jewish Leone, and those new regulations are viewed by Umberto as completely unfair. The long rivalry soon becomes a great friendship. Written by Rodrigo Amaro
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23 February 2001 (Italy) See more »Also Known As:
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Umberto Melchiori: I won't discuss the grammar but the ideas were quite clear.
Professor Angelo: This dammed regime killed the critical sense of the country, it left us stupid. Even the children got pompuous. Where's the irony?
Umberto Melchiori: You're asking me? I don't know.
Professor Angelo: You don't know anything.
[pauses]
Professor Angelo: It's dead.
Umberto Melchiori: Who?
Professor Angelo: The irony.
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Written by Alberto Pestalozza
Edizioni Musicali Nuova Carish S.p.A.
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Professor Angelo: [correcting a kid's lesson] 5 for the grammar, less 5 for the ideas, equals zero. Yes. Zero.Umberto Melchiori: I won't discuss the grammar but the ideas were quite clear.
Professor Angelo: This dammed regime killed the critical sense of the country, it left us stupid. Even the children got pompuous. Where's the irony?
Umberto Melchiori: You're asking me? I don't know.
Professor Angelo: You don't know anything.
[pauses]
Professor Angelo: It's dead.
Umberto Melchiori: Who?
Professor Angelo: The irony.
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The new Scola's movie shows the dramatic life of a group of Jew people during the Italian Fascism. It shows the great difficulties of living in Italy for a Jew retailer and his family after the enforcement of Racial Laws in 1938. It shows the friendship among a Catholic Italian (Abatantuono) and a Jew one (Castellitto).
I liked the movie very much, it is perfectly acted by Diego Abatantuono and Sergio Castellitto and Gerard Depardieu in a little role as Abatantuono's brother.
In spite of the plot, that is not very original, the film tells with efficiency about the human tragedies of those years. It remembers us once again how much cruel can be the discrimination.
And we all have to remember it, especially now.