Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueAn italian film producer travels to Argentina with part of the crew to a Film Festival contest.An italian film producer travels to Argentina with part of the crew to a Film Festival contest.An italian film producer travels to Argentina with part of the crew to a Film Festival contest.
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Guido Gorgatti
- Giulio
- (as Guido Gorgati)
Norberto Sánchez Calleja
- Cecilio
- (as Norberto Sanchez Calleja)
Francesco Mulè
- Fiorini
- (as Francesco Mulé)
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THE GAUCHO was made two years after Vittorio Gassman's collaboration with Dino Risi in IL SORPASSO (THE EASY LIFE), perhaps their best of many films together. Although not as strong as the earlier film, this is a movie of substantial merit and deserves to be much better known. Gassman plays Mario Ravicchio, a financially-strapped press agent who accompanies an Italian production company on its trip to Buenos Aires to present a film at a festival there. He spends much of his time, when not seducing women, trying to accumulate some money, whether by gambling or attempting to finagle capital from expatriate Italian Marucchelli (Amedeo Nazzari), now a rich industrialist in Argentina. He gets friendship, nice words, but no money. Mario tries to tap another former friend from Rome, Stefano, but the guy turns out to be more impoverished than he is. The man is played by comic actor Nino Manfredi (of BREAD AND CHOCOLATE fame) in a short but magnificently acted supporting role as a down-and-out emigrant who has given up hope of success. The first encounter between Manfredi and Gassman with the exuberant exchange of affection between old friends is a treasure to behold. Italian actress Silvana Pampanini does a nice turn as an over-the-hills actress trying to marry a well-off Argentine who has been courting her for some time. Mario returns to Italy disillusioned but not without that saving `gioia di vivere' that characterizes him throughout this likable film with its many little rewards for the viewer. Ettore Scola, who later directed Gassman in DOWN AND DIRTY, lent his hand to the screenplay.
- ItalianGerry
- 29 nov. 2002
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- Durée1 heure 51 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was Il gaucho (1964) officially released in Canada in English?
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