Fantozzi (1975)

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Paolo Villaggio

Ugo Fantozzi

Anna Mazzamauro

Miss Silvani

Gigi Reder

Filini

Giuseppe Anatrelli

Luciano Calboni

Umberto D'Orsi

Count Diego Catellani

Liù Bosisio

Pina Fantozzi

Dino Emanuelli

Megaditta Employee
(as Bernardino Emanuelli)

Plinio Fernando

Mariangela Fantozzi

Paolo Paoloni

Duke Count Maria Rita Vittorio Balabam

Elena Tricoli

Countess Alfonsina Serbelloni Mazzanti Viendalmare

Pietro Zardini

Fonelli

Artemio Antonini

Rude Guy #2

Amerigo Alberani

Megaditta Employee

Mirko Baiocchi

Canello

Luciano Bonanni

Japanese Restaurant Client

Nani Colombaioni

New Year Party Waiter
(as Arnaldo Colombaioni)

Willy Colombaioni

Iolanda Fortini

Teresa Catellani

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Trivia
Fantozzi's daughter is actually played by a man because the creators wanted to make Mariangela look as ugly as possible, like in the book.

Quotes
Ugo Fantozzi: I didn't mean to kill your dog! I'll kill myself in the fish pond!
[jumps in]
Signorina Silvani: What are you doing?
Ugo Fantozzi: I'm examining the temperature of the fish pond.
Ugo Fantozzi: Behold, all of you. I have given you fish
[holds up two fish]
Ugo Fantozzi: and some fine white rice.

Alternate versions
The Italian DVD features a long sequence settled in a beauty farm, which was originally cut out of the theatrical version.

Connections
Followed by Fantozzi 2 (1976)

Soundtracks
La Ballata di Fantozzi
Written by Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi and Paolo Villaggio
Performed by Paolo Villaggio

The Fantozzi saga in Italy is something you can not do without. A lot of quotes are common use in everyday life of people. Paolo Villaggio, who is the author of the original books of Fantozzi, is also the perfect cast for the part, but also all the other characters are outstanding representations of the real life working environment (I personally enjoy very much "Geometra Calboni" interpreted by Giuseppe Anatrelli).

I happened to think, and more then once, that these movies are not to be lost, they are a portrait of Italian life in the 70s and they are an example on how you can laugh (and laugh loud!) with a very low level (especially in the first and second episodes) of vulgarity. I'll take for me VHS or DVD collection to show them to my children's, with the hope that their generation will enjoy them as much as mine.