The Family
"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.
Ettore Scola
Casts & Crew
Vittorio Gassman
Fanny Ardant
Stefania Sandrelli
Andrea Occhipinti
Emanuele Lamaro
Cecilia Dazzi
Jo Champa
Joska Versari
Alberto Gimignani
Massimo Dapporto
Carlo Dapporto
Consuelo Pascali
Ilaria Stuppia
Ottavia Piccolo
Athina Cenci
Alessandra Panelli
Monica Scattini
Ricky Tognazzi
Philippe Noiret
Sergio Castellitto
Memè Perlini
Hanja Kochansky
Allessandro Pizzolato
Fabrizio Cerusico
Barbara Scoppa
Giampiero Gregori
Renzo Palmer
Marco Vivio
Maurizio Marsala
Riccardo Massimi
Giuseppe Cederna
Massimo Venturiello
Dagmar Lassander
Andrea Livier Aronovich
Silvana De Santis
Paola Agosti
Francesca Balletta
Jacques Peyrac
Raffaela Davi
Antonio De Leo
Allessandra Zoppi
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A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.
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Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 1478.