Romulus and the Sabines
Directed byMario Bonnard
Written by
Starring
CinematographyGiuseppe La Torre
Edited byGino Talamo
Music by
Production
company
Capitani Film
Distributed byTitanus Distribuzione
Release date
21 November 1945
Running time
90 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Romulus and the Sabines (Italian: Il ratto delle sabine) is a 1945 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Totò, Carlo Campanini, and Clelia Matania. It was one of several of Totò's postwar comedies to use elements of neorealism.[1]

The film is based on the German comedy Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (1884) by Franz von Schönthan and Paul von Schönthan.

Plot summary

Toto is the actor of a penniless theater group: they arrive in a small town to offer their theatrical calendar to the mayor. Meanwhile, a professor: caught but shy, presents to the community his play, "The Rape of the Sabine Women", but the provincial inhabitants hate mortally the theater. The professor is in despair, but Toto willingly accepts the part of the work, just to eat something. At the end, the opera is performed at the theater, but it is a disaster, because the genre is drama, but Toto gullibility makes it a comic farce.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ↑ Brizio-Skov p.115

Bibliography

  • Flavia Brizio-Skov. Popular Italian Cinema: Culture and Politics in a Postwar Society. I.B.Tauris, 2011.


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