Gallo cedrone

1998
1h 33m

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The life and times of Armando Feroci, a fortyish divorced husband, a careless father, and unreliable brother who's been everything jobwise. The story is told in flashback by his friends afte... Read allThe life and times of Armando Feroci, a fortyish divorced husband, a careless father, and unreliable brother who's been everything jobwise. The story is told in flashback by his friends after he is mysteriously kidnapped in an Arab country by an integralist group and condemned to... Read allThe life and times of Armando Feroci, a fortyish divorced husband, a careless father, and unreliable brother who's been everything jobwise. The story is told in flashback by his friends after he is mysteriously kidnapped in an Arab country by an integralist group and condemned to death.

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Trivia
Carlo Verdone stated in an interview that the scene where real estate agent Armando Feroci (Carlo Verdone) shows a crumbling apartment to his future wife Marcella (Ines Nobili) was really shot in a dilapidated building. To get a permission for filming, they had to promise that they would have shot the scene in few minutes: the actors played without the possibility of doing mistakes, while the building was noticeably creaking around them.

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Plot Summary

The title is more than just a play on 'Carlo Verdone'.

Gallo in Italian means rooster and the character played by Verdone, Armando Feroci, is a real ladies man passing up no opportunity to hit on the women he meets. The film explains the life of Armando Feroci in the eyes of his friends, his wife, his daughter, his brother and his brother's wife, all the while revolving around the plot of Feroci's kidnapping. Who took him? Will he be freed? Why did it happen? This is an extremely funny film, one of Verdone's best, and I'd recommend it to anybody.